After five years of working as a full-time housewife, Lin Wan has turned her life into a bowl of lukewarm water—circling around the stove, around her children, around her husband and family. The sharp edge that she once took on in the office building has been worn away by the day-to-day triviality, leaving only a vague outline. She is Chen Kai's wife, Nian Nian's mother, and the daughter-in-law who "should take care of the family" in her mother-in-law's eyes, but she has forgotten that she is Lin Wan.
The hidden exclusion of mothers, the habitual neglect of her husband, the anxiety of being disconnected in the workplace, and the reluctance hidden deep in her heart that she dared not express, were like a fine net, trapping her in a seemingly perfect cage. She is afraid of being eliminated by the times, afraid of becoming a "jobless" mother in the eyes of her children, and even more afraid of completely losing herself in the bundle of multiple identities.
From secretly learning new media by herself late at night, to returning to the workplace with "mom thinking", from forbearing compromises in marriage, to rebuilding an equal and symbiotic relationship with her husband, from fighting alone, to connecting a group of women in distress to empower each other, Lin Wan spent four years step by step breaking gender prejudice and age barriers, and turning the trivialities of life into the confidence to grow.
It turns out that those gritted teeth alone in the dark night, those struggles that are not understood, those cautious desires will eventually converge into a torch. One person's awakening can illuminate his or her own path; the embrace of a group of people can warm all those who are moving forward on the same wavelength.
Purpose: A woman's self-awakening connects women's mutual assistance and family symbiosis, breaks the shackles of gender and identity, and illuminates the way forward for similar people with the power of a glimmer of light.