Lin Li, 29, once thought that love was all she believed in in life. Starting from that inexplicable meal on the university campus, she put her youth on the line and maintained her fantasy of the future by relying on intermittent contact during the six years of foreign love. After her marriage, she worked hard in the workplace and supported herself during her pregnancy, thinking that she could finally get a stable life. However, she never thought that Chen Yu, the person beside her, had already taken her efforts for granted amid the stability of a state-owned enterprise and the dullness of life.
When a third party's phone call breaks the calm, when the neighbor's gossip becomes a wake-up call, Lin Li's keen intuition is suppressed time and time again by Chen Yu's lies and cold violence. From the initial self-deception, tolerating internal conflict, to discovering that her husband had actually brought a third party back to the new house she had worked so hard to renovate, Lin Li experienced the severe pain from collapse to sobriety with the support of her sister and best friend. Faced with Chen Yu's selfish prevarication, confusion of right and wrong, and even the absurdity of teaming up with a third party to demand compensation, she finally gave up completely despite being pulled and hurt again and again.
This is not a hysterical revenge, but a sober separation. After three court sessions, Lin Li reluctantly gave up the child custody rights that she could not win for the time being, but won back her dignity and self that had been trampled on. She did not live up to the heroine in the novel, she would still be frustrated in the workplace, and she would still feel lonely late at night, but she finally understood: good love means side by side, not sacrifice. It's not terrible to miss the mark by ten years. What's terrible is to be stuck in the same place and refuse to grow. Let the past go, she will eventually learn to love herself and rebuild a self-consistent, calm and independent self amidst the brokenness.
