Long Live Moms

[Selected Project, 2017 National Online Literature Key Works Support Program]

[Second Prize, Second Online Original Literature Realist Fiction Contest]

[2018 Yuewen Super IP Screen Adaptation Value Realist Fiction]

[“Ode to the Red Flag: 100 Websites and 100 Masterpieces Celebrating the Centenary of the Party”]

People once said that those born in the 1980s would be the most hard-done-by generation.

Many have passed the age of thirty and grown into the backbone of society.

They’re married, with elderly parents to support and children to raise.

They’re burdened with mortgages, car loans, and more.

Those with kids worry about raising them, spending all they can on tutoring so their children won’t fall behind at the starting line. Those who own homes move to school districts with better schools; those who don’t scrimp and save to buy homes there.

Unmarried men and women past the usual marrying age race along the road of being pressured to wed. Dating and marriage may or may not be difficult, but finding the right person takes a great deal of effort.

How can anyone balance family, career, and love? Women have even more to weigh and sacrifice. Zhao Xiaoxi is a typical woman of the post-80s generation. After marriage, with elders to care for and children to raise, she still has to fight her way through the workplace like one of the guys...