Square and Circle

Qin Fang resolutely gave up his career, demobilized and returned to his hometown to take care of his mother, Chen Xiulan, who had terminal cancer. He originally thought that blood was thicker than water, but he experienced the harshness of the world at his uncle's New Year's Eve dinner - his relatives who once praised his status as an army officer now despised his downfall and even despised his mother's illness as unlucky. The three sisters each have their own excuses: the eldest sister Wang Pan is good at calculating, the second sister Zhu Ying is cold and distant, and the third sister Li Zhao has too much time to take care of herself. From being left out in the family to asking his mother for medical treatment, from picking up bottles to make a living to starting a counterattack, Qin Fang used the "squareness" of a soldier to keep the bottom line and accumulated strength with the "roundness" of life. Until he met nurse Zhou Yuanyuan, a woman who was round on the outside and square on the inside, who witnessed his filial piety and repaired his wounds. After his mother left, Qin Fang sat alone on the hillside behind the house for two days and two nights, and finally understood: square means edges and corners, and circle means tolerance; square is easy to break, round is easy to slippery, and between square and round, square is the world.