Tong Wang

The stories of four couples reflect Chinese views on love and marriage.

Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids.

An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.

In the late 1990s, in a small town in the southwest, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles held a writers' pen meeting, and the participants were more than a dozen famous domestic writers. A young woman (Wang Tong) is in charge of the reception at the pen meeting. While serving the pen meeting, she unexpectedly met her long-lost college boyfriend, a man who came to this small town to do business (Wang Zhiwen). decoration). A short time in a small town, a chance encounter... Literary discussions on one side, love stories on the other.

32-year-old Yang Tao is a beautiful single lady who works as a hotel manager. Yang Tao's mother is anxious for her to settle down to start a family and constantly sets her up on outrageous blind dates much to her despair. Guo Ran is a 35-year-old bachelor who settles divorce cases at the national registry of marriage. Due to the ugly scenarios that he consistently witnesses at work, he adopts a cynical view of marriage. One day, Guo Ran's buddy, Xi Feng, decides to set him up on a blind date with his cousin-in-law who happens to be Yang Tao. The pair start off on bad terms but grow closer as they learn to come to terms with their past failed romances.