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In 1990, at a steel mill workers' compound in Northeast China, 28-year-old "old maid" Lin Xiaoman was forced by her mother to go on a blind date—only to run into Zhou Weiguo, a rough ex-soldier fighting over coal briquettes. This man, who once saved her, was desperate to marry for a housing allocation to pay his paralyzed mother's medical bills. To help Zhou and escape the "unmarriageable" gossip, Lin agreed to a flash marriage. But on their wedding night, Lin found Zhou's secret: an unsent love letter to his fallen comrade's sister. Meanwhile, Lin hid a glass marble from her first love during her rural educated youth days. Cramped in a 10-square-meter hut, they clashed with both the finicky coal stove and their unresolved pasts. It wasn't until the steel mill layoffs hit—when Zhou snuck to a construction site to buy Lin's favorite sugar-coated haws, and Lin sold her dowry gold ring for a wheelchair for Zhou's mother—that they realized: Love isn't about being unhurt. It's about turning wounds into warm, steady warmth for the one beside you.
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