Xu Zhinan went from being a well-behaved small-town girl to making her way in the big city.
She was once a bottom-of-the-class student, studied art, supported an ex-boyfriend, and even lent someone fifty thousand yuan, only to have them turn around and betray her.
Later, she became the director of an art gallery. She turned down shortcuts to success and met Lin Wen, a plastic surgeon from a privileged background.
He gave her emotional support and marriage, but he also had an overly intimate female friend, a complicated family, and a past he kept hidden.
After they married, her mother-in-law moved in, and the boundaries of their life together were steadily eroded.
This isn't a fairy-tale romance. It's an ordinary person's marriage, a fortress besieged from within.
