Shen Xiaole, Chen Jinning, Xia Yao, and Yi Dan were college roommates, the Four Musketeers.
Han Yang’s affair nearly destroyed Shen Xiaole’s life. Now approaching forty, divorced, raising a child alone, and out of work, she wonders what to do with her future.
Chen Jinning is trapped in a marriage where she may as well be a widow. She’s responsible for raising two boys, doing all the housework, and caring for her sick mother-in-law. Faced with the deeply ingrained belief that men work outside the home while women take care of it, how can she make things change?
Xia Yao enjoys the sweetness of dating a man ten years younger, but deep into the night, she worries about how much deeper she’s falling and how distant he seems.
Yi Dan is caught up in Liu Yuheng’s calculations of pros and cons. When morality and love are at odds, which should she be true to?
How many people can really stay out of the question of marriage?
