Forty-year-old Lin Xiaowan is the most worry-free daughter in the family and the most convenient sister for everyone.
She orders food and pays for her parents' birthdays. When her younger brother encounters a problem, his first reaction is to look for her. Even her nephew's enrollment in school naturally falls on her. She thought that if she did more, the family would be more harmonious.
Until her mother's birthday, her brother pushed the bill in front of her again, but for the first time she didn't reach out.
The words "You two get married this time" are not met with understanding, but with blame, a cold face and the sentence: "How did you become like this?"
Only then did Lin Xiaowan understand that a person who had been keeping everyone in the dark for too long would become selfish in the eyes of others once he stopped.
From refusing to check out, to no longer registering children for her brother, to withdrawing from the family group that was always waiting for her to clean up the mess, she decided to take back the occupied life bit by bit.
But it's easy to say no to something. Bearing family affection, guilt and children's tears is the real beginning.
At the age of forty, Lin Xiaowan seriously asked herself for the first time: If she no longer relied on everyone, could she live just for herself?
