In the summer when she turned 30, Lin Zhi called the police for the first time. Before that, she endured it for 30 years. She endured the third aunt selling her rabbit, endured relatives carving up the yard left by her grandpa, endured the paralysis of her paralyzed grandma who had her pension taken away but was reluctant to buy even a box of medicine. She goes to and from get off work alone, takes care of her mentally disabled mother, and adopts thirteen abandoned cats, each one of which is just like her, left in a corner to fend for itself. She thought she could endure it for the rest of her life. Until that day, the third aunt was carrying the flight box to throw away her orange cat, and she pressed 110. From that moment on, this fat girl who had been scolded by her relatives for thirty years as a "good-for-nothing girl" began a long fight back. In the process, two men came into her life. One taught her what heartbeat is, and the other taught her what it means to be firmly chosen.
This is a story about protection and resistance. Protect the yard left by my grandpa and the thirteen homeless cats, protect my paralyzed grandma and my mentally disabled mother, and protect myself who has been despised for thirty years.
This is also a long farewell - farewell to cowardice, farewell to silence, farewell to those hurt in the name of "family affection". When the yard finally turned into ruins, when the cat was sent to a new family, and when all the lawsuits were settled, she left Ping An Lane with the old cat with disabled hind legs and started over in another city. Many years later she returned to the original site of the old courtyard, which had been turned into a cafe, and the man who had retreated countless times under the streetlight was sitting in the corner waiting for her.
