Lin Xiao is a young delivery courier who leaves the countryside for a big city. Every day, he rides his electric scooter through the bustling streets, racing against the clock to deliver a few more parcels and earn a little more hard-earned money. A simple, honest smile is always on his face, but behind it lie the crushing pressures of daily life and uncertainty about the future.
In his cramped, damp rented room, his neighbor, Uncle Wang, treats him like family, offering warmth and advice. But Zhang, the owner of the courier station, looms like a greedy shadow, always ready to skim off the fruits of his labor. One day, Lin Xiao happens to meet Su Yue, a white-collar worker in an office building. Her warmth and kindness shine a light into his world, but the difference in their social standing sends his heart spiraling between turmoil and hope.
The Bittersweet Struggles of an Ordinary Man follows the many sides of Lin Xiao's life. Watch as he struggles to survive between dreams and reality, holds fast to kindness and integrity amid the warmth and coldness of human nature, and strives through hardship to find a glimmer of happiness that seems forever out of reach. It offers a vivid portrait of an ordinary person's helplessness and heartache as he fights to make it in a big city, as well as his unwavering yearning for a better life.
The cover says The Heartache of an Ordinary Man, but it should be The Bittersweet Struggles of an Ordinary Man. Why phrase it this way? Because I want to show the subtle changes taking place in the protagonist's heart.
