The Shared-Rental Files: A Survival Guide for Urban Men and Women

【Ensemble cast with the feel of My Own Swordsman｜Light legal education｜Everyday realism｜Everyone grows】 In a Beijing apartment building, one wall separates two very different lives. 1501 is the warm, steady home of Lin Wan, a local girl, filled with the comforts of everyday life and always offering a way out. Across the hall, 1502 is spacious and cold, with three bedrooms secured by keypad locks, occupied by three rootless men adrift in Beijing. One side is home; the other is a foreign land. Twenty-nine-year-old Lin Wan hosts legal education livestreams for the police. Armed with a smattering of psychology, she is both naive and proud, and used to judging human nature through theory. Only after witnessing the countless disputes of grassroots life does she step down from her moral high ground and learn to truly empathize with human suffering. Zhang Shijie was once a star investigator on the major crimes squad, but a serious injury forced him off the front lines, leaving him stuck dealing with the petty squabbles of the community. Covered in old wounds and still bitter inside, he is gruff but soft-hearted. Amid the daily bustle, he gradually comes to terms with the gap between his past and present. There is also Qian Mili, a single-mother lawyer who turns her life around from the brink of despair; Jiang Yan, a forensic doctor who recklessly squandered his engagement savings when he was young, but spends the rest of his life grounded and self-reflective; Jin Yue, a passionate rookie who dreams of major cases but puts down roots on the front lines; and six-year-old Duoduo, who brings healing to them all. To give people involved in their cases time to cool off and be observed, they temporarily house at 1501 the volatile individuals and men and women involved in minor incidents whom they encounter on the job. The people who come and go are caught up in family, property, contract, and relationship troubles. The six adults and one child bicker, support one another, and always have each other’s backs. Between law and human feeling, they witness people losing their way, shed their obsessions and disguises, and find redemption within themselves.