Derek Chen

In a coastal village near Taidong during the 1960’s, a single, middle-aged mother, Bao-chai, lives a quiet life with her daughter, Xi-lian, a 20-year old schoolteacher. After conservative Bao-chai finds out that Xi Lian has fallen for her cousin, she forbids them to see each other. As time passes, Xi-lian finds love again, this time with Chu-cheng, a new teacher at her school from mainland China. When Chu-Cheng is relocated, he writes love letters to Xi-lian. Unknown to Xi-lian, the letters are intercepted and read by Bao-chai, who, in reading them, has feelings awakened in her that has been buried for most of her life. Then, one day, Chu-cheng comes to visit, and something happens that will change these three quiet lives forever…

Never cross a woman. Ten years ago, Zuo Shaotang humiliated Zhang Jinhan in front of the entire school and left her unlucky for the next ten years. Ten years later, they meet again but he does not recognize her. How will the bewildered Shaotang escape Jinhan's vengence? Meanwhile, Jinhan is suddenly faced with sharing her new home with two other women. What sort of problems and changes lay ahead for these three unlikely roommates?