The Moon Melts at Dawn

Four medical school classmates have taken four completely different life trajectories: Meng Xiaomei, a school doctor, earns a meager salary in a grassroots hospital. After falling ill during the epidemic, she finally understands that being together in ordinary life is the most precious happiness; Dani, a successful pediatrician, is reborn from the ashes after suffering marital betrayal and starts a second spring of love with her son; nurse Li Wen ended her first marriage due to infertility, but gained unexpected family love after becoming a stepmother; Lan Xin, a maverick, gave up medicine and returned to the county to teach, living her true self in neutral dressing and DINK life. When they reunited at a Chengdu hot pot restaurant many years after graduation, four kinds of life intertwined and collided in the boiling red oil pot: Meng Xiaomei's cherishment of ordinary life, Dani's balance between career and parenting, Li Wen's sweet and sour identity as a stepmother, and Lan Xin's comfort in living alone. They discovered during the collision of wine glasses that whether it was living alone or being alone, happily married or single and comfortable, every choice was worthy of respect. This warm and healing novel shows the diverse survival wisdom of contemporary women through the stories of four women. It tells us: Happiness does not lie in living what others see, but in living what you want.