Xu Yanqing, nicknamed the “Problem-Solving Genius,” has a long list of accomplishments: to help her moms find love, she staged a car accident and deliberately went missing, leaving Lin Yuan’s mom, Lin Yuheng, frantic with worry; she planned a horror-movie trap to catch Lin Yuan, only to scare her own ghost-fearing construction-site mom, Xu Weilan, stiff with terror; and she even deliberately engineered one chance encounter after another to start dating the naive Lin Yuan. Her misdeeds are too many to count.
Now the Problem-Solving Genius has decided that her rough-around-the-edges mom, Xu Weilan, feels inferior and unworthy of Lin Yuan’s bookish mom, Lin Yuheng. So she dares to turn the tables and tell Xu Weilan, “Mom, why don’t you go to college?”
Just as Lin Yuheng’s menopause kicks in, she tears through the tender facade with a blunt accusation: “Xu Yanqing, this isn’t love. You’re a control freak!” Stung to the core, Xu Yanqing remains gentle with Lin Yuan, but stops teasing her and acting so intimately.
With her sense of security in ruins, Lin Yuan starts sleepwalking. Every night, she appears right on schedule at the head of Xu Weilan’s bed, muttering like a ghost: “Auntie Lan, why don’t you go to college...” Xu Weilan, who used to be afraid of ghosts, is cured of her fear by the little ghost in her own home.
Daughters: The gentle, scheming Xu Yanqing, who wants to solve every problem, x the innocent, sunny Lin Yuan, who lacks a sense of security
Moms: Lin Yuheng, a cool and aloof antique-book conservator with a bit of a temper thanks to menopause, x Xu Weilan, a short-tempered construction worker urged to study by a female ghost
High-risk duo: Lin Cangchuan, a mad collector, x Ayu, a genius sculptor raised by wild dogs
At that time, I was writing about a woman who fell in love with a woman. I let myself go a little bit and did not take care of the main and secondary plots. In addition, the income was so low that it was negligible, so I wanted to finish it quickly at the time, but it ended a little hastily and I left it all in the postscript.