When he turned thirty, Fang Yuan was two hours late and Shen Zhiyi lit birthday candles three times.
This was the first rift in their marriage, but not the last.
In the past ten years, from conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law during pregnancy to postpartum depression, from workplace ambiguity to the edge of mental infidelity, from layoffs and unemployment to thyroid cancer surgery - they have experienced all the tests that middle-aged couples may encounter. There is no bloody reversal, no golden finger rescue, only the struggles and compromises of ordinary people between mortgages, childcare, illness, and their original families.
When love becomes responsibility and when passion is exhausted, can they learn to love each other again?