So often, time carries us along, from our first cries at birth to our final breaths, ending when we are laid in the ground. It feels as if everything is laid out in a script: go to school, get a job after graduation, get married, have children, raise them, then watch them reach life’s milestones just as we once did. Everyone seems like an NPC in a game, automatically unlocking skills and triggering missions at each stage of life to keep the story moving. It all feels perfectly natural.
This passing of life from one generation to the next may be the result of nature’s laws, but it also depends on the circumstances of the times.
Zhu Yang is a post-95s woman living in a small county town in China’s fourth or fifth tier. She is approaching thirty, and it seems she can’t avoid making choices about work, life, and marriage. With all of them pressing her to decide, where should she go from here?
