Li Feiran, 32, has worked in the marketing department of a major Internet company in first-tier cities for eight years, rising from a grassroots specialist to a senior manager. She is a capable and independent working woman in the eyes of outsiders, but she is also an ordinary middle-aged woman trapped between family and work.
In the workplace, she encountered deliberate bullying, gender discrimination, and promotion ceilings from her colleague Xu Mumu. She was PUA, isolated, blamed, and spread rumors every step of the way. In life, she was troubled by the trivial parenting of her seven-year-old son, the coldness and alienation of her husband Chen Kai, the traditional harshness of her mother-in-law, and the invisible constraints of her original family.
During a brand cross-border cooperation, she met Shi Yan, the calm and restrained director of the partner, and the two of them developed a tacit understanding at work and developed feelings for each other, repeatedly pulling between moral boundaries and heartbeats. Cui Xiaoyu, a sunny and straightforward workplace junior, regarded her as a role model in the workplace and silently protected her, becoming a small support for her to fight against workplace malice.
She has seen the coldness of same-sex exclusion, but also felt the warmth of female mutual help and opposite-sex confidants. In the fight against workplace bullying, the torn family conflicts, and the entanglement of emotional choices, she broke free from the shackles of "a married mother should take care of the family" and tore off the prejudice label against women in the workplace. She finally balanced her career and herself, kept the fireworks in the world, and became her own support.
