Home on Strings

A string of Yang Xiumei's piano broke, just like her life - her husband Chen Wenjin has been absent all year round, her daughter Chen Xiao rebelled against the world, and her mother Li Naying, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, struggled in the fog of memory. When she broke down and cried bitterly at the parent-teacher meeting, when her daughter drew a picture of her faceless mother, and when her husband found the bottle of antidepressants, the family realized that the mother's pain was never her fault alone. Three generations of women, three marriage dilemmas. Li Naying's forbearance diary, Yang Xiumei's unfinished piano dream, Chen Xiao's blue hair and sketchbook are intertwined in front of the broken piano, unfinished architectural model and faded family portraits. It wasn't until an accident caused the whole family to work together to repair the old piano that they realized that home was not without cracks, but that there were people who were willing to listen to the sound of broken strings. Father's love brings peace to the mother, and mother's peace brings peace to the child. When Chen Wenjin finally learned to catch his wife's tears, when Yang Xiumei allowed herself to no longer be perfect, when Chen Xiao drew the first complete family portrait - the old piano finally played Pinghu Qiuyue, the intonation was still not perfect, but warm enough. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.