No melodrama, no exaggeration.
Cui Tong is an ordinary person trying to live a quiet life, someone who wants to climb out of the mire and make a better life for himself.
Zhou Junze is another ordinary person he meets. Just when she thinks her happy, peaceful new life is about to begin, the past returns to haunt her like a nightmare.
Hurting others and being hurt seem unavoidable in every kind of relationship.
Everyone is trying their best, and everyone is powerless to escape their circumstances.