Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. Together they had appeared at the courthouse in Wujia Town many times, but she had always changed her mind at the last moment when the judge asked if she would accept a .divorce. Year after year, they went to Wujia Town and came back with the same marriage license issued to them by the county's registry office twenty years before.

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For more than seventeen years,Lin Kong,a dedicated doctor,has been passionately in love with an educated,modern woman,Manna Wu,but back in his traditional home village lives the humble,loyal wife his family chose for him years ago.Every summer,he returns to ask her for a divorce and every summer his compliant wife agrees but then backs out.This time,after eighteen years'waiting,Lin promises it will be different.