The Story of a Mama's Boy in Love

Urban daily life + contemporary romance + lighthearted humor.

A gritty work of realism that hits close to home, with no transmigration or golden finger. It features a large cast, and at least one character is sure to feel familiar.

If you want to know what life and love are really like for ordinary Beijingers, or you're interested in romances between Beijingers and people from elsewhere, read Momma's Boy in Love.

The protagonist, Dabinzi, is stubborn and one-track-minded, a hopeless student and what everyone calls a momma's boy.

He thinks being Manchu makes him special, but that only gets him laughed at. He wants his future wife to be as strong and domineering as his mother, yet he doesn't want her to be as broad and burly as she is... He always seems to be at odds with himself, so tangled up inside that he doesn't know what to do.

He's bad at both academics and sports, a truly hopeless student, but he's fiercely proud. He has no money to his name, and his parents are ordinary city folk, yet he keeps trying to win love with material gifts.

He fell in love for the first time as a student, an early bloomer by any measure. He was already pursuing girls while still in school, oblivious to the fact that his reputation as a hopeless student made him completely unappealing to them. Still, he never got tired of trying.

From school to the working world, from massage parlor girls to driving-school classmates, he falls in love wherever he goes. His love is sincere, and utterly naive...

He searches for a career while searching for love, stumbling along and getting into all sorts of ridiculous situations. People even look down on him, but he never gives up after a failure...