Tang Wei has been the deputy director for more than ten years. Not only has he not been promoted, but he is also a "useless" deputy director. The wife decided to divorce and abandoned him; the daughter was vain, spent money lavishly, and tried every possible means to ask for money from him: her parents were old and sick and needed his care; the younger brother, citing his busy work schedule, pushed the responsibility of taking care of his parents to him alone. Tang Wei was exhausted physically and mentally and struggled to live every day.
Tang Wei vaguely felt that the sloping house in his hometown seemed to be related to his destiny.