YANG QIAO ER is a jolly and easy-going club-girl. In order to quit her so-called public relation work, she plans to find a man and settle down. When she is talking marriage with her boyfriend LAW, her real identity is exposed and she is recognized by LAW's parents as a social butterfly.

QIAO ER's dream of marriage shatters. She intends to commit suicide as an act of protest. Yet she is not courageous enough to taste the bitterness of death. The twist to the story is when QIAO ER swallows a piece of Chinese New Year cake, she is choked to death.