Thirty-year-old Lin Xia stands at the crossroads of life, like a carefully packaged commodity that no one cares about. On her birthday, what she was waiting for at the Michelin restaurant was not an engagement ring, but a breakup declaration from her boyfriend Cheng Yan: "You live too much like the perfect model in the window, I dare not even touch it." As the youngest creative director of an advertising company, she can polish every plan to dazzle, but make her life a mess.
Over the next ninety days, Lin Xia's perfect persona began to collapse. At the car proposal meeting, the director of Party A tore up her plan in front of the entire company, but the hand-drawn storyboard handed over by the intern received unexpected applause; after working overtime at three in the morning, she vomited in the back seat of the taxi, and the driver handed over a tissue with the words "life is not easy" printed on it; during the video call, the newly renovated baby room that the parents deliberately avoided the camera was more painful than any words urging marriage. In this city where value is measured by clicks, she understood for the first time: those perfect moments that are liked are all performances, and real life often happens outside the camera.
When Lu Yuan accidentally spilled American coffee on her annual project, Lin Xia's screams plunged the entire creative department into deathly silence. The divorced project director did not apologize. He just squatted down and dipped his sleeves in mineral water to wipe the blackened paper bit by bit. The sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows on the ring mark on his ring finger, and she suddenly remembered the words of the psychological counselor: "It is the privilege of an adult to allow yourself to mess up."
