Shuangpailou Hutong, with its decades-long history, has witnessed generations of people’s daily necessities, life, old age, illness and death. Time seems to have frozen here, sticky and slow. On this day, the news of house renovation was like a bomb that shattered the tranquility of Shuangpailou Hutong. People cheered and rushed to tell each other, fully expecting the arrival of a new life. Xia Yan (played by Li Nian), a young and beautiful white-collar worker, is a member of Courtyard No. 15 in Shuangpailou Hutong. This girl of marriageable age still lives in a small house of only a dozen square meters with her grandmother (played by Xu Xiulin) and her divorced mother (played by Zhang Xiaolei). The arrival of the good news of demolition did not bring much happiness to Xia Yan, but instead added a lot of troubles. Her over-enthusiastic second aunt (played by Wang Liyun) squeezes her home and gives advice on her marriage to her boyfriend Qiu (played by Yin Xiaotian). Xia Yan's company is inextricably linked to the house renovation project. Work, love, and life have all turned into a mess...
Public network detected during work hours. Use Tongbao VPN for stable access to ChatGPT / Claude / Notion / Slack — keep your cross-border workflow uninterrupted.
