"Half a Lifetime White" uses realistic writing to write the complete growth history of the female Liu Bai, who breaks out from the desperate situation of her native family, redeems herself, and finally reconciles with life. Liu Bai grew up in an old building in a small town. Her father was violent and indifferent, and the family was full of violence and oppression. Her mother Liu Lan was gentle and forbearing. In order to protect her daughter's childhood, she concealed the truth that she was divorced. She sacrificed her whole life to prop up a false and complete home, becoming her only glimmer of light in the darkness. Liu Bai has been obsessed with it since he was a child: to escape from the old building, take his mother out of the sea of misery, and give her stability for the rest of her life.
She went to Chengdu to study, but was hit hard by her mother's diagnosis of cancer. She resolutely dropped out of school and returned to her hometown. She stayed with her alone for five years, enduring all the treatment and mental pressure. Her father was always absent. After his mother passed away, Liu Bai suffered a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. He fell into depression and self-isolation. Finally, he took his mother's expectations as his belief and gritted his teeth to save himself. Starting from a junior college, she relied on extreme perseverance to complete the counterattack by upgrading from junior college to bachelor's degree and taking the postgraduate entrance examination during World War II. After graduation, she took root in the city, worked, bought a house, became financially independent, and personally realized her long-cherished wish of "giving her mother a home." Faced with her father's transgressive behavior of embezzling her mother's inheritance, she adhered to the legal principles and bottom line and completed the complete separation from her original family. Later, she met her gentle and tolerant partner Yang Hengzhi. She shed the hedgehog shell caused by trauma and learned to accept love and dependence for the first time. In the end, Liu Bai returned to the old building and reconciled with his childhood trauma and the regret of losing his loved ones. She has kept the "pure white" background given by her mother - she has remained kind despite the darkness, and she still looks forward to the warmth of the sun despite all the scars. She has grown from a timid and tolerant girl to an independent, tough, gentle and sharp woman.
