[Family Conflict + Parent-Child Communication + Second Child] Told in a gentle, nuanced style, this is a story about a modern family, focusing on family conflicts, communication between parents and children, and having a second child. Spanning both an earlier, bygone era and today's technology-driven age, the story unfolds through humorous dialogue.
When 58-year-old Zhang Meilan rushes into a corporate meeting room with a baby bump, the career of her eldest daughter, Chen Dongyang, collides head-on with her fate as the family daughter expected to sacrifice everything for her younger brother. What should have been New Year's Eve, with the whole family gathered around the hearth, is torn apart by a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, three wills hiding deadly secrets, and a six-year-old's diary filled with the words “Kill my sister.”
A corporate HR star is forced to use a breast pump to fight workplace discrimination. A history teacher wears a mask of chalk dust to hide his sexual orientation. And the second son, dismissed as a “gift from government policy,” uses children's crayons to sketch out a shocking scam at the Youpei Education Institute. From garbled battles in the family WeChat group to a courtroom DNA test using umbilical cord blood, everyone in this thirty-year family crisis wounds one another amid the everyday bustle, then searches for redemption beneath the steady glow of the lights, until Grandma Chen smashes the family jade bangle on her deathbed and reveals the bloodstained mark in the family tree: not a biological child.
