An ensemble story of women growing, parallel comebacks in school and the workplace, a decade-long fated romance, the bonds between mother and daughter, mutual protection among loved ones, and women’s journey toward self-redemption.
Love and family should never be cages that confine us for life. The only way forward is always to fulfill ourselves and find our own way through.
Xiang Zhao grew up in a single-parent family. She saw with her own eyes how two generations of women were trapped in life’s mire, repeatedly swept along by fate.
Her aunt, Xiang Chaoyang, endured in silence for half her life, sacrificing her youth to hold together a broken family and swallowing every grievance in her marriage. She spent her entire life working and giving for her family, never once truly living for herself.
Her mother, Xiang Mingyue, was gentle by nature. When she was young, class differences tore apart the relationship she cherished, and she was forced to give birth to a child outside marriage. She wandered from place to place, enduring contempt at every turn. Even in old age, she remains mired in an old romance, unable to move forward or turn back.
Having witnessed the hardships her two closest relatives endured, Xiang Zhao resolves to defy fate. She sets out to study medicine, determined to gain the skills to protect her loved ones and put an end to the tragic cycle passed down through generations.
At school, she meets a cool and reserved young man. They fall for each other at first sight and promise to spend their lives together, only to be separated without warning twice in a row, spending ten long years apart.
From sharing every day as schoolmates to practicing medicine side by side at a hospital, they reunite after the passage of many years.
He is restrained and taciturn, hiding a heart full of unspoken pain as he quietly waits for her, his devotion unwavering for decades.
She is sensitive and starved for affection, consumed by insecurity and self-doubt as she struggles again and again with the push and pull of love and the bonds of her family.
The tangled family affairs that the previous generation could never resolve, her mother’s old romance that leaves her unable to move forward or turn back, the cycle of fate that neither generation of women can escape, and the emotional barriers built over ten years...
