"I can't hold on any longer."
Wang Yanlin, 28, never imagined that the collapse of life would come so intensively and silently.
Yang Tingli, her boyfriend who had been in love for many years and was talking about marriage, calmly withdrew under the will of her mother, leaving a cruel farewell "for your own good". Almost at the same time, the corrupt private life of his father Wang Jianguo, which had been hidden for many years, was suddenly exposed. Not only did he have a family outside, but he also squandered his meager family resources on countless romantic relationships. The final straw for her was the company that was teetering on the edge of the economic downturn: salary cuts, structures, cold "performance improvement plans", and even subtle but undeniable harassment from her boss...
Behind her are the ruins of the entire world. In front of her are the tearful eyes of her mother Liu Shuzhen - a retired woman who has always been strong but has limited abilities. After suffering the double blow of her husband's betrayal and the stabbing of her best friend, her social circle completely collapsed and she was at a loss.
This is not a cool myth of a desperate counterattack, but a difficult crawl in the cramped reality.
Wang Yanlin could only grit his teeth, pick up the remaining sanity, support his mother, and under the cold-eyed guidance of his shrewd lawyer friend Shen Xiyue and the flow calculation of the versatile self-media person Lin Xiaoqian, he began a fierce battle to defend dignity and survival: collecting evidence, going to court, and struggling to survive on the edge of unemployment...
In this story, there is no perfect victim, no savior falling from the sky. There are only the dim glimmers of human nature, the biting chill of the economy, the complex entanglements of family and friendship, and after recognizing the truth of life, trying to rebuild a small but solid enough foothold in the mess.
