The Ingenuity of Ancient Books Stays Together Without Marriage

"Standing Up at Thirty: The Prowler Outside the Besieged City" Lin Mo, 32, is like an inconspicuous speck of dust in the ancient city of Xijing. Living in a rented house with a barely subsistence salary, he is a "useless" son in the eyes of his parents and a "slow-selling product" that is picked on in the blind date market. While his peers were already talking about housing in a school district and having a second child, he was still anxious about introducing himself to the next blind date. In order to get rid of the label of "leftover man" and to appease his parents' increasingly anxious hearts, Lin Mo was forced to participate in one ridiculous blind date after another. From stylized questions and answers to awkward silences, from the illusion of online friendships to the destruction of workplace ambiguity, he has ignited hopes again and again, only to be beaten to death by the barriers of reality again and again. High housing prices, sky-high betrothal gifts, and conflicts between generational concepts were like an invisible net, trapping him tightly. During the long journey to find a partner, Lin Mo encountered all kinds of women and saw all kinds of marriages and love affairs between urban men and women. He was confused and had self-doubt, but in the end, this seemingly passive breakthrough turned into a practice about self-awareness and growth. He began to understand that in the year of "Eli", to truly stand up, perhaps it is not to rush to find the other half, but to learn how to reconcile with oneself and the world first.