This story takes place in the city of Dalian, Zhao an old retired factory worker who is over 50 years old is looking to marry an overweight divorced woman with two children. He tells her he likes that particularity about her so she can keep him warm. The bride wants and expensive wedding and he goes on a hunt for the money to give her the wedding she wants since he would like to get married as soon as possible. During his quest he realizes that he already owes money to his friends and needs to come up with a new plan to make money. Zhao and his friend decide to fix up an old bus where young lovers meet and charge them for their time there. Meanwhile as he is doing this he tell his future bride that he has a hotel with a partner. She has a bratty, spoiled, rude son who is very mean to her blind step-sister. She has the girl in her house doing chores and asks Zhao to take her (Wu Ying) to work in the hotel with him, he is first reluctant but since he wants to make her happy he agrees.
In attempts to keep the non existing hotel a secret he opens up a fake massage place for her to work in with the help of his other retired friends. He finds himself taking care of Wu Ying and loving her as his own daughter, during this time he is not as close to his bride since his priority is Wu Ying. One day he decides to go visit his bride only to find out she has already married another man and basically kicks him out of her apartment and asks for the girl back since her new husband can now take care of all of them. Wu Ying being the smart girl she is notices that he has been lying since the beginning and decides that she doesn't want to be a burden for Zhao any longer and leaves to go look for her dad, she leaves an audio recording letting him know of that. At about this same time Zhao is heart broken and got very drunk and has an accident that leaves him unconscious in the hospital. The movie ends with this inconclusive ending.
The theme of the movie I would say is compassion, dealing with a disability, friendship and love. Zhao looking for love found love but from a person he did not expect and in a way that he did not expect because it was more like a father-daughter relationship that he developed with Wu Ying. Him and his friends coped with Wu Ying's disability the best way possible and made her feel comfortable.
I enjoyed watching this movie, at first I thought it would be more of a laughing comedy and towards the end it was the type that made me cry. It was very heart touching even though the ending surprised me. My favorite part was when his "bride" told Zhao that he is always wearing the same shirt which means that he is no hotel manager and he tells her that is the nicest shirt he has and he wears it for her,
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