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In a 1965 Northeast Chinese village, 18-year-old Lin Xiaotang marries disabled veteran Zhou Jianguo to repay his family’s kindness for saving her mother. Ready for a practical partnership, she’s stunned to find her quiet husband saved three months’ cloth coupons for her red cotton-padded coat and secretly sewed her educated youth admission letter into her new pants. What she thought was “repayment” was his three-year secret love: he saved her mother, waited for her after school, and collected candy wrappers for her trinkets. Holding the warm letter through tears, Zhou smiles shyly: “I married you not to collect a debt, but to have your back.”
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