What's Wrong with Not Getting Married at 30?

Luo Yibing is a 30-year-old associate professor in the history department at Jinghai University. She's achieved a measure of success in her career, but because she still isn't married at 30, her colleagues and students tease her about it. Once lively and outgoing, she begins to dread going to work and gradually becomes socially anxious. Fortunately, her father, Luo Jianzhou, and her mother, Bai Yujie, are open-minded parents. They've never pressured Luo Yibing about marriage and patiently encourage her to live a happy life.

But Luo Yibing's childhood friend Li Jiaojiao isn't so lucky. Faced with her mother Zhao Tingfang's relentless pressure to get married, Li Jiaojiao fails to get through to her and chooses to run away, moving in with Luo Yibing. Even then, she can't escape Zhao Tingfang's clutches, and eventually leaves in a state of depression.

Wang Xin is a strong, independent woman and a former middle-school classmate of Luo Yibing and Li Jiaojiao. She has clear likes and dislikes, takes responsibility for her actions, and won't let the outside world sway her. Having experienced separation and loss as a child, she has learned to take many things in stride. Turning thirty isn't necessarily about getting married by that age. It's about seeing yourself more clearly, planning your life, and not letting time go to waste.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.