This book represents people in their forties, and deeply depicts the emotional entanglements that mature men and women face in family and marriage as they approach middle age.
The marriage of the male protagonist Liu Xianghui and his wife Zhang Liyun has been facing crisis from the beginning. Liu Xianghui was constantly swaying and struggling when faced with the choice of marriage and love, emotion and responsibility; Zhang Liyun was willing to sacrifice in order to protect the family; the beautiful strong woman Qin Jinjun was willing to fight for the man she loved after her divorce; and Li Yingxia, this He is a model of a good man, but when he met Hui Zhiwen, who was connected with him, he still couldn't control his emotions and chose to betray his wife; but when he faced Zhou Li, who could truly trust and understand each other, he could always be polite and treat her as his best friend of the opposite sex. As the generation born in the 1970s approaches the threshold of middle age, they not only face the pressure of life on their heads, but also bear the burden of career on their shoulders. At the same time, they are also mentally burdened with conflicts in marriage and emotional fetters.
Every character in the book has both a sympathetic and hateful side; a noble side and a despicable side; an angelic side and a devilish side. It focuses on showing the complexity of the characters' hearts when facing family, love and friendship. It uses real life feelings to describe the confusion and confusion of urban mature men and women when facing family, marriage, love, responsibility and morality.