Hoping Miss Reporter will marry into the countryside, making wishes to the Earth God and the Great God of Journalism

An independent, self-reliant modern new woman, full of passion for the land and for farmers, and armed with long-trained rational thinking and a critical spirit, decided to marry straight into the countryside and give herself to it body and soul. But the ins and outs of a rural village in the south are definitely not as simple as a Taipei young lady imagines......

Lee Hui-yi, who worked as a reporter for public television for more than ten years, was born in the countryside of Hengshan Township, Hsinchu, but after beginning her studies she moved step by step into the city and grew into a hot-blooded, radical youth; after becoming a reporter, she shuttled even more frequently to scenes of farmland pollution and land expropriation and house demolition. She had originally felt that the future environment was simply unsuitable for raising children and had made up her mind not to marry, but in 2006, through an interview assignment, she came to Meinong, Kaohsiung, and the moment she entered, she was stuck fast by the soil and water here.

After three years of settling in, in 2009, she and Meinong Farmers' Association instructor "Big Brother Zhu" Zhu Xiu-wen decided to marry, and she transformed into the eldest daughter-in-law of a 16-member extended family, stunning all her relatives and friends.

Seven years after bearing two sturdy boys, Lee Hui-yi seemed to have become a different person inside and out. The reporter young lady who once wore ultra-short hot pants and high heels had darker skin and a broader figure, and at first glance was almost a genuine village woman; her originally sharp and forthright character and manner remained, but a new layer of "eldest daughter-in-law style" tact and consideration had grown over it, and even her mother was astonished at the change in her willful daughter.

What did not change was that Lee Hui-yi still gripped her pen tightly, and amid the chaos of child-rearing and farm life, with the strength she had left, she carved out a trenchant rural chronicle. That was no longer merely in-depth observation; it was hand-to-hand combat at close quarters.