Put-upon insurance salesman Chen Wen (Huang Bo) flies in looking for his friend Shen Lou (Jiang Yiyan), a kindergarten teacher. A taxi driver recognises her photo as the "Chinese girl in the mountains" and they set off to find her. En route, Chen Wen remembers how the two of them first met by chance in a square in Kunming, Yunnan province, when he tried to help Shen Lou, disguised as a mad old bag lady, in a square one day. After calling an ambulance, he almost ended up in the local lunatic asylum himself thanks to Shen Lou's hobby of role-playing. However, entranced by her beauty and vivacity, he agreed to play another game with her - to be her "pretend lover", so she could enjoy the happy part of a relationship, without the pain of the beginning or the sadness of the break-up. Her one rule was to always follow her demands, which started harmlessly enough with a series of dares but gradually became more extreme. Then, just when he started to fall in love with her, she suddenly stopped calling.
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