In 2026, AI began replacing copywriters, graphic designers, and customer service workers on a massive scale, and it pushed Shu Xiaoman, who had spent eight years trying to make it in Hangzhou, out of the game.
At thirty, she'd lost her job, and the 110,000 yuan severance payment was nowhere in sight. Then she discovered that her husband had secretly borrowed nearly 600,000 yuan and put their marital home up as collateral. Their savings were wiped out, their marriage fell apart, and debt collectors showed up at their door...
Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, she found out she was pregnant.
Her job was gone, her husband had left, their home was on the verge of foreclosure, and her bank card held just over 20,000 yuan.
Should she keep the baby?
If she did, how could an unemployed, debt-ridden thirty-year-old woman survive?
