After five years, Ning Xi returned to the place that had pushed her away — home. With a sister who turned her parents against her and made her childhood sweetheart betray her, the odds seemed grey. However, five years abroad had changed her, and she came home to fulfil her childhood dream of becoming an actress. Despite her evil sister still out to get her, tables will be turned. One day, after falling into one of her sister's schemes, she saves an adorable kid and found herself staying at his house to help him come out of his shell. Slowly, his father Lu Tingxiao began falling for her. This was before they realised how their lives had been intertwined all this while without their knowledge.
When the director of "Mountain", Qi Feng, saw the results, he looked like he had been expecting this all along.
In the end, the Best Female Lead award still came down to the acting skills of the female leads.
No matter how amazing the screenplay of "Mountain" was, even if the judges really liked it, it could not change the fact that Ning Xueluo's acting was not able to touch their hearts.
The fact that they had received the Best Screenplay award was a huge irony. Despite such solid screenplay, he could not live up to its standards…
As time went on, arthouse films got less and less popular. Even with directors like him, a lot of them would give in and invite some young and rising stars, ending up with some cliche-filled melodramatic movies.