In the ancient city of Xi'an under the wave of change in the 1970s, Lin Jing'er, a literary girl with a bright spring appearance but deep self-esteem and stubbornness in her heart, struggled to grow up in the shackles of a family where men were superior to women. Her mother, Sun Yuelan, used suffering as a pointer, but her father used gentleness as a beacon, shaping her contradictory and rich soul. From the repression of her native family, to the brief respite at her aunt's house, to the awakening of independence under her grandma's roof, Jing'er uses words to fight fate and uses silence to accumulate strength. When she meets the man who understands the folds of her soul, love becomes the thread of redemption and detonates the emotional landmines that have accumulated for decades between mother and daughter. This is a realistic romance epic about the pain of the original family and self-salvation. There is no bloody twist, only delicate struggle; there is no perfect ending, but there is real growth. Can Jing'er finally break free from the shackles of 'original sin' and live an undefined life amid the tension between marriage, career and family ties? The open-ended final chapter leaves every reader with the tenderest answer in their heart.
Being brought back to the past [laughs]