Chen Qingru is an ordinary person, someone you might see anywhere. She grew up following a familiar script: study, work, get married. Even the problems in her marriage are nothing out of the ordinary, sometimes caused by conflict with her mother-in-law, sometimes by household expenses, and sometimes simply by what to eat for dinner.
There is no melodramatic domestic violence or adultery, only the dull, aching pain of a knife slowly cutting into flesh. Little by little, life wears her down, deepening her wounds and stretching even the smallest cracks into impassable chasms. Between work and family, freedom and security, herself and others, should she compromise or fight back?
Everyone marches unflinchingly toward their own fate. In this age of freedom, Chen Qingru chooses to begin again.
The writing is very realistic. It is very important to have a well-matched marriage. What kind of parents will bring up what kind of children.