Before her death, her mother held Shen Yan's hand and said, "Don't let our family be good people anymore."
The next day, he found a silver mask in a secret compartment of the bookshelf in his hometown. Wear it, and every word you say will automatically become what others want to hear, decent, gentle, and impeccable. The price is that you slowly forget what you really want to say.
Shen Yan originally just wanted to wear it to pass the interview, but the mask soon penetrated into every conversation and every relationship he had - he even began to be unable to distinguish which words were his sincerity and which words were spoken by the mask on his behalf. Until he discovered in his grandfather's diary that every generation has tried to break away from this mask, and every generation has failed. Some people wrote, "A hundred forbearance will not turn into gold, it will turn into ashes." Others repeatedly marked the same sentence: "I really want to scold someone for once."
Shen Yan began a struggle that only he knew. He discovers that the mask is not just a silverware, it has long been embedded in the family's bloodline and has become a generational curse of "respectability". To take it off, he must face not just a heated object, but a wall built with "for your good" over generations.
It's not the mask that's been passed down in this family. It was the unspoken words. And Shen Yan was about to speak.
