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The collapse of urbanites is mostly silent - at the age of 32, there are many things that were not in Li Ai's plan: she left a foreign country for love 5 years ago, in exchange for the word "divorced" on her household registration book; her once all-powerful office is now just... What is left is a cramped corner; not to mention the dull and mediocre business attire in the mirror, the middle-aged woman's favorite wedge shoes, and the fear of scratching her daughter's ears and neck that have not worn jewelry for a long time... Of course Li Ai remembers that her dream of becoming a lawyer was inspired by Hong Kong legal dramas. She liked the feeling of close combat. She shined brightly as soon as she entered the law firm, and was promoted to candidate partner less than five years after practicing law. Her sharp and transparent analysis and judgment, super memory, and aggressive momentum often defeat the opponent's lawyers. She has never been seen to submit to anyone, and she has never been seen to admit defeat. Now, Li Ai, who has disappeared for five years, has returned to Beijing. He is divorced and unemployed. He has come back with a story and a child to answer the only question: Should a 30+ woman give up? This time, she just wanted to win it back beautifully.

Xie Xiaodan is a beautiful and capable CBD white-collar worker who strives for an elegant and superior quality of life; his cousin Chen Qing is a top student who graduated from Stanford, and gave up a well-paid job in the United States to fully support her boyfriend Beipiao's entrepreneurial start-up; her best friend Tian Rong's love career has been hit by obstacles, and after losing her job, she devoted herself to real estate speculation. During the ten years when housing prices in Beijing have been rising steadily, the wealth, sense of achievement, and social status of the three people have quietly exchanged, dividing them into those who own houses and those who do not. The pursuit and hope of the three people in life have involuntarily changed in the cruel reality of high housing prices. Through meticulous and realistic descriptions of reality, the novel leads us to find answers to the problems that plague Chinese people's houses.