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"The Balance Under the Eaves" tells the story of a working-class family in a second-tier southern city whose children are involved in the whirlpool of morality and reality after their mother becomes paralyzed. The eldest daughter Lin Wanqiu discovered that her mother had concealed the truth about her advanced lung cancer. The second son Lin Chaoyang was being collected for gambling debts. The adopted daughter Lin Xiaoxia accidentally discovered the adoption certificate and searched for her biological parents. Chen Liming, a care worker who seems to be a simple and honest man, actually comes for revenge and secretly controls the inheritance competition, exposing the grudge between his parents thirty years ago. Families fall apart amid conflicts over property, debt, life experience, etc., And the alarm sound of the monitor becomes a metaphor for moral judgment. When the truth is revealed layer by layer, the mother uses the last strength of her life to try to repair the family relationship, and the children re-understand the weight of "home" in the brokenness. Through the entanglement of three generations, the novel explores the dilemma of old-age care, the conflict of intergenerational concepts and the disintegration of traditional filial piety under the one-child policy, and shows the complexity and redemption of human nature in the fierce ethical game.