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The novel starts with a young couple born in the 1970s facing the crisis of desynchronization in the tide of marriage changes and love salvation, and tells the story of their marital healing process during their ten years of marriage, including the fading love, marital war, marriage changes, love salvation, spiritual growth, and rebirth or rebirth. From loving each other and caring for each other, to torturing each other and hurting each other, they finally passed through the most difficult running-in period of the ten-year marriage. In the betrayal and tenderness, they gradually measured the happiness they could bear. They represent the common and typical 20, 30, and 40 "marriage growth model" that most men and women born in the 1970s have experienced, are experiencing, and will soon experience.

The warmest and most hilarious pregnancy novel in 2009. After seven or eight years of DINK marriage, Li Xiang suddenly found out that she was pregnant on the eve of her husband going abroad to work. She knew that if she did not give birth to this child, she might not have the courage to have another child in the future. Her DINK friends who are like her and her husbands who are far away from abroad are all eagerly looking forward to her giving birth to this baby. In desperation, with timidity and fear, Li Xiang accepted the fact of pregnancy. During her ten-month pregnancy, she experienced many things: she had always been afraid of children, but had to be a temporary "mother" for a period of time; she had to face her former admirers with her out-of-shape figure; the way her male colleagues looked at her also had subtle changes...

The novel interweaves Zhou Jiping's memories and narratives with Wang Haowen's past and present bit by bit. It not only contains the bizarre, ridiculous and despicable real life at the moment, but also has the freshness, refinement and touching of deep love. The characters in the book have outstanding and vivid personalities, ranging from a smooth and hypocritical philistine like Liu Zhengda to a smart old lady like An Midwife. The most important character in the book is Wang Haowen. Although she has unspeakable faults, she is still an honest, natural and frank person in essence. Finally, she went to find a life that was more suitable for her and more peaceful, and she began to correct her previous extreme views on the world. She realized that although she had suffered injustice many times since she was a child, striving to be a just person was the best way to make up for the spiritual pain caused by social injustice...

How should couples deal with the growth of their children? A "lion mother" who aspires to be more powerful than a tiger mother, and a "dove father" who aspires to be free and democratic, what will be the effect of their education? Of the two children, one is about to take the college entrance examination and is at the most critical stage of life; the other is about to start a new journey from childhood to primary school. How to mobilize the whole family when the college entrance examination is about to take place from elementary school to elementary school? The protagonists of the story, Su Zhaohong and Yu Dahai, eventually divorced because of their different values ​​in educating children. This friction continued after the divorce.