A family named Gu lives at No. 90 Dongguan Street, Jiangcheng. Her mother, Lan Lingyu, is an educated youth in Tianjin. Due to the pressure of life, she married Gu Dashan, an older man with an unattractive appearance. Now their four children are in their prime and experiencing a mid-life crisis: the eldest sister Gu Sirou is a civil servant and has an outstanding daughter. Gu Sirou's husband was a middle school principal who was raising an illegitimate child outside the home, and their marriage eventually disintegrated. Her parents-in-law favored sons over daughters and gave birth to grandchildren every day. The second sister, Gu Sixia, is a middle-level leader in a private enterprise. She has an unmotivated husband and a pair of children who are troubled in their studies. Gu Sixia looks passionate on the outside, but extremely insecure on the inside. Every day I am either at Jiwa or on the way to Jiwa. The third sister, Gu Sining, was laid off in middle age. She married a small-town essayist. She had a father-in-law who acted like a monster every day and a selfish brother-in-law at home. Her life was a mess. Gu Sining tried her best to support her son, exhausting all her energy. The younger brother Gu Sizhao is a 996 worker in a big city. His wife is an only child in a big city. In order to get rid of the embarrassment of marrying into his wife, he bought a house when housing prices were at a peak. Now he is struggling to survive with the burden of mortgage and raising a child.
This novel creates a series of characters with different personalities through the experiences of three generations of the Gu family. The author uses delicate writing to analyze the confusion and perseverance of the current middle-aged group in the face of heavy pressures in education, marriage, temptation, work, mortgage and other aspects. The story tells people that no matter how hard life is, they should uphold a correct outlook on life and maintain the beauty of human nature in the face of major issues of right and wrong.
Purpose: To describe the joys and sorrows of ordinary people.