So What If I'm Still Single at This Age?

Through the courtship and marriage of Qiao Yuyan and Jiang Yuanchao, this novel explores the theme that "personality determines fate." Continuing the author's realist style from the previous works The Post-Marriage Years, Happiness Returns, and Ten Thousand Miles of Starry Sky, it uses nuanced characterization to examine the relationship between family, society, character formation, and fate.

The heroine, Qiao Yuyan, was raised by her grandparents as a child and is estranged from her parents and family. Her feelings are sensitive and fragile. Jiang Yuanchao lost his father as a boy and his mother at a young age. He is reserved and self-controlled in the face of hardship, steady and dependable, and suppresses his own pain to protect others. During college, each of them had a beautiful, romantic relationship, and each suffered an abrupt breakup. After meeting with their hearts badly wounded, they understand and cherish one another, healing each other as they offer mutual support. With the two of them at the center of their relationships, the story follows the joys and sorrows experienced by their classmates, friends, fellow townspeople, and coworkers.

"Some people you meet are the greatest blessing of your life; others are a lifelong nightmare. Every word and deed plants the seeds of fate to come."

Whether good or evil, fortune or misfortune, we'll tell it all in time.

A disclaimer in advance: As I write this story, I do my best to avoid drawing on the lives of my classmates, coworkers, and friends. But no one can escape the traces left by their past in their preferences, sorrows, ways of expressing love, and every other aspect of life. The people and things we once liked, hated, loved, and loathed have become part of us, and no human effort can remove them. Still, please believe me: this story is entirely fictional. Please don't assume it refers to anyone in particular.