Xiao Yanshi was frail and sickly from childhood, and always felt she wouldn't live long. She was determined to achieve her dream of winning Best Screenwriter, and no one could stop her.
To others, it looked like Xiao Yanshi was relying on her connections, offending everyone she met and doing every bad thing imaginable.
Little by little, Xiao Yanshi realized that not everyone was like her. Unlike her, they wanted to live more than they wanted a script.
And the more she wrote, the more her scripts resembled this kind of life: either people desperately escaping into a world full of lies, or facing a reality too ugly to bear.
Xiao Yanshi: "Boring."
And Xiao Yanshi: "Me too."
For the 10,086th time, she turned down Jian Xingfeng's invitation to go out for the same reason. But he wouldn't give up, sending her the 10,087th beach photo. The important detail: the waves were huge.
Looking at her seemingly immature arranged-marriage partner, Xiao Yanshi said expressionlessly, "If you want a divorce, just say so. There's no need to trick me into going surfing. Anyone would know you'd be trying to kill me."
"I don't want a divorce."
Jian Xingfeng: "But let's go have fun together."
Xiao Yanshi was so annoyed by him that she agreed.
But when they got to the beach, she just dug a little pool, scooping out the water with a plastic shovel and then pouring it back in.
She wouldn't let Jian Xingfeng leave, either.
All he could do was watch longingly as a jet ski passed by in the distance, then came back again.
They didn't get to do anything, but when they got back, Xiao Yanshi sat down at her computer and felt she could write a little more.
There's a Fool in My Family
Theme: Someone loves you
