Over the past twenty-six years, Jin Wenmiao's studies and love seem to have been moving steadily along an upward trajectory.
Rural areas, children of migrant workers, left-behind children, poor students, Huaqing University, American Ivy League, Peking University, childhood sweethearts... Each label witnessed her growth through all obstacles. She always believed, as people around her said: As long as you work hard enough and pass exams one after another, life will eventually come naturally.
However, at the age of twenty-six, a series of unexpected realities shattered her firmly believed logic.
The indifference and alienation of childhood sweethearts after the seven-year itch, the soul mate they thought they found in the vast sea of people is far away from each other; those relationships that were once thought to be stable, unknowingly show cracks.
She suddenly discovered that life is never a test paper with clear standard answers. Efforts may not bring results, and excellence may not bring preference. The beliefs that had supported her all the way forward began to falter.
The continuous function of life never jumps suddenly, but the turning point of fate has already been quietly accumulated in countless subtleties. When the old coordinate system gradually fails, when love, career and self-perception are reconstructed at the same time, where will Jin Wenmiao go?
And where is the answer to her life hidden?
Purpose: The most important growth in life is not to climb upward, but to rebuild the standards for evaluating oneself.