From a small county in northern Anhui to Lujiazui, Shanghai, 16-year-old Zhu Zhe clutched a one-way ticket and spent 20 years cultivating cocoons in the hotel room department - room inspections at 5 a. M., Apologetic smiles when guests made things difficult for her, late-night transfers to compromise for her family... She was like a stubborn camphor tree, branching out desperately in the wind and rain of life, but she was always trapped in the shell of her "sister", shielding her younger brother from the wind and rain, and burning herself for her family.
Until that time:
- A mistake in wiping the sink with towels in the guest room led her to meet travel blogger Cui Jian. This man who used his camera to record the real life not only broke down her mask of "perfect service", but also revealed her exhaustion and unwillingness hidden under her work badge;
- Her younger brother Zhu Hao's "gnawing old age" broke out, her grandmother's surgery expenses, her mother's cries, and her brother's accusations were like a dull knife cutting through her obsession of "eldest sister is like mother" - it turns out that love is not a bottomless sacrifice, but teaching the other person how to stand;
This is not a "counterattack drama", but a woman's rebirth.
When Zhu Zhe tears off the label of "sister", when Cui Jian's shots no longer only have "service standards", and when the younger brother finally learns to carry his own luggage, those days crumpled by life will eventually be smoothed out into light in the palm of her hand.
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"I once lived as an umbrella to protect everyone from the rain; now, I want to be my own roof."
This is Zhu Zhe's story, and it is also the answer that every woman struggling with love and responsibility will eventually reach.
