Break Free from This Prison

"Escape from This Cage" unfolds from the perspective of two female protagonists, telling the story of Yang Xiaochen and Nie Yun's mutual redemption in the quagmire of life. Thirty-year-old Yang Xiaochen is trapped in the cage of the "perfect wife". Her husband's indifference, her mother-in-law's difficulties, and the obstacles to career advancement make her swallow antidepressants alone late at night. As a single mother, Nie Yun, as a single mother, deals with gender-discriminatory promotion ceilings in an advertising agency during the day, and faces her ex-husband's lawsuit for custody at night. Fate caused these two women with very different personalities to meet in the divorce mediation room - Yang Xiaochen discovered that Nie Yun was actually the target of her husband's affair during marriage, while Nie Yun recognized Yang Xiaochen as the top student on campus who always crushed her in essay competitions. When Yang Xiaochen's husband accidentally fell to his death, the two of them uncovered a shocking secret during the inheritance dispute: the seemingly perfect marriage cage actually hid the shocking truth of three identities. The novel uses suspenseful writing to tear apart the tip of the iceberg of modern women's survival dilemma. Amidst the multiple strangleholds of workplace ceilings, parenting responsibilities, and violence in intimate relationships, two "broken women" finally confront each other in court and discover that the real cage is never made by others, but a siege built by the hands of disciplinarians.