What is happiness? It's three meals a day and the simple pleasures of everyday life. Where is happiness? In the day-to-day routines and trivial household matters.
The most important part of family life is the relationship between parents and children. When children grow up and enter society, the roles parents and children play in each other's lives change. Both sides need time to adjust to this change, and conflict between parents and children is inevitable along the way.
They say you don't understand your parents' love until you have children of your own. When children start families and become parents, when their former confusion and resentment toward their parents give way to understanding and acceptance, and when every grievance and rift has finally faded away, what remains is happiness.
This book tells the story of Lao Guan, a father born in the 1970s, and the worries and dilemmas he faces as his daughter Xiao Guan, born in the 1990s, grows up and confronts life's major milestones, from building a career to love and marriage. After a series of events, Lao Guan and Xiao Guan find their places in life again and come to a deeper understanding of happiness. Their story reflects the thoughts and feelings, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people in today's society, as well as their understanding of and pursuit of happiness.
