When Wen Enran was standing outside the interview room adjusting her collar, she never imagined that the person sitting behind the glass door would be the intern she refused to become a full-time employee seven years ago. 35 Years old, a stay-at-home mother for seven years, blank work experience - these labels are scratched on her resume like a knife.
At the same time, her best friends are also struggling in their own life tracks: Su Wen, who has a successful career, encounters gender discrimination in the workplace; Zhao Meng, who insists on DINK, discovers that her husband secretly changed her birth control pills; and Chen Daiyi, a sales manager of a medical device company, is facing the cruelest choice - on the day of bidding for a multinational project, her five-year-old son Xiaoyu was hospitalized due to an asthma attack.
Starting from learning to use office software, Wen Enran rebuilt his professional dignity step by step. When her husband complained that she no longer kept the house in order, and when her child cried, "Mom doesn't love me anymore," she gritted her teeth and wiped away her tears in the bathroom. The sight of Chen Dai staying up late in the ward to make bids and her sharpness in arguing for custody rights in court became Wen Enran's strength to persevere. When Zhao Meng saw how his girlfriends were fighting each other but supporting each other, his attitude towards the fetus in his belly began to change subtly...
This is not a fairy tale about "perfect balance", but a story of four women emerging from the cocoon of workplace discrimination, motherhood punishment and social prejudice. When Wen Enran got the project contract, when Chen Daiyi won the "telecommuting" compromise, and when Xiaoyu played with a respirator in her mother's new office and said "I work with my mother," they proved with their actions: 35 is just the age at which the second puberty of life begins.
