Chen Zi Hao is a tall, handsome and successful young man. He is conservative and down-to-earth and has always kept himself away from love, until he meets Ye Ting, an out-going and passionate girl who has just returned to China. They quickly fall in love with each other even though they both know they are so different in their attitudes towards relationship and marriage.

Chen Zi Hao is a tall, handsome and successful young man. He is conservative and down-to-earth and has always kept himself away from love, until he meets Ye Ting, an out-going and passionate girl who has just returned to China. They quickly fall in love with each other even though they both know they are so different in their attitudes towards relationship and marriage.

Living in a traditional “four-sided courtyard” house, where historically multiple generations would live together in one complex, Wei Daxue slowly finds her few friends in the world slipping away — an artist living in the guesthouse leaves, a neighbor dies, and her dog runs away. Her daughter is physically distant, and a cross-generational tension between tradition and the expediencies of modern life keep their conversations short.

Living in a traditional “four-sided courtyard” house, where historically multiple generations would live together in one complex, Wei Daxue slowly finds her few friends in the world slipping away — an artist living in the guesthouse leaves, a neighbor dies, and her dog runs away. Her daughter is physically distant, and a cross-generational tension between tradition and the expediencies of modern life keep their conversations short.