The novel takes Chu Nuannuan, a young lady from rural area who has ever worked in the city, as the protagonist and tells the story that she continuously forges ahead and leads the whole village to start up business after going back to her hometown of Chu Wangzhuang Village.Nuannuan, a "princess"-type country girl, is the common dream lover of almost all young men of Chu Wangzhuang Village.Zhan Shiti, younger brother of the village director Zhan Shideng, boasts that Nuannuan belongs to nobody but him. However, but Nuannuan refuses him and is resolvedly married to a poor young man Kuang Kaitian. Consequently, she feuds with the village director who runs roughshod in the village.Since then, this sophisticated, stubborn, high-hearted woman begins her long and arduous journey of life.The novel is strictly structured and full of sadness and warmth. With his unique understanding of China's rural life, the author not only writes the great changes and contemporary atmosphere of the life in the countryside, but also discovers the firmness of deep structure and the difficulty of transformation in rural areas of China.
