32-Year-old Li Wan guards the "Wan Deng Bookstore" in an old alley in the city center. Amid her parents' urging to get married, "It will be too late if you don't get married," she lives a sober and stubborn life - she believes that love is the icing on the cake, not a patch to fill the holes in life. 35-Year-old Huo Chengyu is an elite in the legal profession and is accustomed to using logic to dismantle life. However, when he was handling a property dispute for his neighbor, he broke into Li Wan's bookstore and was attracted by the "Little Prince" with dried ginkgo leaves on her bookshelf.
One is a bookstore owner who refuses to be defined by "age" and "marriage", and the other is a lawyer who has seen through the relationship game but longs for sincerity. Their encounter is not dramatic, only the temptation and restraint of adults: they will share a cup of cold brew coffee at the bookstore bar late at night, and they will hand each other a key piece of evidence outside the court; they will tacitly act as each other's "shield" when their parents push for marriage, and they will also say "you don't have to hold on" when their careers are at a low point.
At the same time, Li Wan's best friend, Su Min, a 34-year-old divorced mother-in-law, was branded as a "single mother" and opened "Sister Min's Yard" B&B in the suburbs. From being ridiculed by her ex-husband for being "unfamous" to attracting repeat customers with her good cooking skills and transparent personality, her road to breaking through the situation contained the courage of women to "find themselves after losing their marriage."
When "Wan Deng Bookstore" faced a demolition crisis, when "Sister Min's Yard" encountered malicious competition from peers, when Huo Chengyu's family pressured "it's time to settle down," Li Wan and Huo Chengyu finally understood: Mature love is not bound by the labels of "wife" and "husband", but "I support you to be yourself!"
