Jack Xu is an over-the-hill novelist living in a big city in China. He’s just had a divorce and his new novel has been put in mothballs. Jack is distraught and going through middle-age crisis. At this juncture, his ex-wife’s young cousin,Wang Zizi, a beautiful high school graduate turns up in his life. She has been adimtted to a college in the city. At first, Jack regards the cousin-in-law as a burden his ex-wife inflicts on him until she can stood on her own feet in the city. However, one thing leads to another, Wang falls under Jack’s spell as she develops a soft spot for the sore loser. On Jack’s part, though consciously unawere of it, for the first time in a long while, he finds something he can be occupied with and a little solace in his otherwise chaotic life. But in the meantime, another crisis is being bred.