In a nutshell: A young woman born in the 2000s, who prides herself on being clear-eyed about life, spends three years going from debt-free and carefree to 240,000 yuan in debt. At her most desperate, she is lured into a new trap by an emotional advice streamer, before finally dismantling the gilded cage she built with her own hands.
At its heart: This is not a moralizing tale about a spendthrift woman getting what she deserves. It is a modern parable about how capital exploits a person's sense of unworthiness with surgical precision. Every purchase the heroine makes is, in essence, an attempt to atone for the child she once was: a girl in hand-me-down clothes who did not dare ask for toys. Capital sees right through this, then sharpens its sickle into the shape of self-love.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate anything depicted here.
