"Why" is an emotional novel focusing on the reality of contemporary marriage and childbirth. The story begins with a wait outside the delivery room, revealing the true price behind the fairy tale of love.
Lin Wan and Chen Mo were once the golden boys and girls on campus, a model of evenly matched love. But when their daughter was born, the seemingly perfect marriage began to show cracks. During a dispute, Chen Mo blurted out, "Why should I spoil you?" This completely aroused Lin Wan's long-repressed emotions - from the torment of the 280 days of pregnancy to the pain of childbirth, from the irreversible physical damage to the endless exhaustion of parenting; from the tradition of children taking their father's surname, to the gradual annihilation of self-worth.
This is not a simple love story, but a deep conversation about the cost of childbearing, gender roles and the nature of marriage. Through delicate writing, the novel shows a woman's physical pain and identity loss in the process of becoming a mother, as well as a man's difficult transformation from indifference to awakening.
When love encounters the reality test of childbirth, when romantic commitment collides with daily sacrifice, how can the couple rebuild understanding and respect on the ruins of childbirth? "Why" does not provide simple answers, but only presents real struggles - about the sacrifices that are taken for granted, about the emotional debts that are ignored, and about how two ordinary people learn to see each other in the broken places.
This is a mirror that reflects the unspoken contributions and debts in every relationship; it is also a question to find the balance and truth of love between "why" and "why".
Quite true.