A lavish wedding, its appearance of respectability built entirely on borrowed money.
Lin Keting, a country girl from Henan, marries Fang Yuan, a simple, honest young man, through a matchmaker. She thinks she has found a stable life, but once the wedding is over, enormous online loans, car payments, and a mortgage come to light one after another.
From the muddy country roads of southern Henan to the old alleyways of Shanghai, two young people weighed down by debt are forced into the same little boat.
There are no shortcuts, no triumphant turnarounds, only the daily grind and careful frugality.
Ten years of storms and hardships wear away their rough edges, and forge a bond that lasts.
The road ahead is long, but hand in hand, the two of them will slowly make it to shore.
Realistic novels, like stories that happen to everyone