At Forty, I Have It All Figured Out: My Spirited Girlfriend

Middle-aged, unemployed, drowning in debt, and mocked by his ex-wife in public as a "forty-year-old loser," Chen Jingming thought his life had nothing left but darkness, until a girl who seemed to walk in on a ray of sunshine offered him a warm invitation to work together.

With a sixteen-year age gap, one is a bankrupt architect who has hit rock bottom, while the other is an award-winning rising star in landscape design. He's grounded in tradition and has a wealth of experience; she is at home with green design concepts that suit the times. What should have been dismissed as an older man "robbing the cradle" instead makes them the perfect architecture-and-landscape duo?

His partner betrays him, and the industry mocks his "outdated ideas." She stakes her dowry on him, works late into the night revising designs by his side, drives off a scheming romantic rival, and stands up to vicious competition. Her parents oppose her, and people accuse her of being after his money. He backs her with his professional expertise, teaches her how to bring designs to market, and shields her from every storm.

This isn't a one-sided rescue. It's a partnership that brings mature responsibility and youthful energy together. And it's more than a sweet romance: it's the comeback story of a middle-aged man reclaiming his dignity and a young woman staying true to her dreams.

With his ex-wife back to harass him, his former partner plotting against him, and age prejudice always at their heels, can they break through with a design that combines tradition and innovation? How will this unlikely cross-disciplinary romance change their fates?

Click to read and watch a bankrupt middle-aged architect and a spirited goddess join forces to cultivate a double spring of career and love amid the steel and concrete of the city!