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"With a house, can I live like a human being?" The latest masterpiece of "Kim Ji-young Born in 1982" author Zhao Nanzhu shows everyone's unavoidable ordinary desires. The story revolves around a fictional place, Xuyingdong, and connects various characters in Xuyingdong in the form of multiple short stories. Through the interplay of these characters, a condensed social landscape of East Asia is depicted. Among these characters are young couples with hugely different family backgrounds who love each other but always find it difficult to understand each other; there are elderly people who have retired but still work without dignity but with meager income for the sake of their sons and grandchildren; there are stay-at-home mothers who quit their jobs for the sake of their children but are helpless when their children are hurt by problem children in the class; there are fathers who look down on powerful and selfish fathers but rely on them to live. There is a female white-collar worker; there is a tutoring school principal who is dependent on her son and mother, but the generation gap between her and her son is getting bigger and bigger while neglecting her mother; there is a middle-aged couple who has been working hard all their lives for a better house but feels that the house is both a source of happiness and a source of misfortune because of the noise problem in the neighborhood; there is a young man who is working hard in a big city and has no fixed place to live but has a firm belief in his dream. When a house becomes a lifelong proposition for people, does owning a house mean happiness? The story that happened in Xuyingdong is also the story of each of us.

A rare phenomenon-level bestseller in Asia in the past 10 years, it stars Jung Yu-mi and Gong Yoo in the original movie of the same name. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, national host Yoo Jae-suk, and BTS leader Namjoon are all reading. Kim Ji-young was born in Seoul on April 1, 1982. Growing up in a family of civil servants, a family of six lived in a house of 72 square meters. She is just that ordinary girl you meet every day. Since childhood, Jin Zhiying has had a lot of confusion. The best things in the family always go to her younger brother first. She and her sister can only share one room and one quilt. When she was in elementary school, she was bullied by the boy sitting next to her. She cried and confided in her teacher, but the teacher smiled and said, "Boys are like this. The more girls they like, the more they will bully her." When she went to middle school, she often had to be wary of bad guys on the subway and buses. We should not take it lightly in school, as there are also male teachers who like to touch female classmates. But they often choose to swallow their anger. After graduating from college, I entered a public relations company. She found that while her colleagues were mostly female, the senior executives were almost entirely male. I have to socialize after get off work, endure dirty jokes from customers and endless requests to drink. She got married at the age of thirty-one and soon had a child at the urging of her elders. With everyone's "natural" expectations, she quit her job and became a full-time mother. Jin Zhiying felt as if she was standing in the center of a maze. She had been looking for an exit down to earth, but she found that she could never reach the end of the road.