Wang Wanping

Spanning decades, this heartfelt drama follows a mismatched couple as they weather family conflicts, heartbreak, and devastating loss.

Set in a Western-style house in Shanghai's French Concession, the film spans decades of change. Once home to the Lin family, the house is transformed into a maternity hospital in the 1930s, then a factory in the 1950s after the founding of the People's Republic of China. By the 1990s, it becomes a mixed-use building, with each era bringing new stories of the people passing through its doors.

Ambitious and independent, Xiao Yan is assigned to lead a maternal and child project at Thea Group, despite her belief in a child-free lifestyle. With help from her friend You Ya, a full-time mother, she begins to understand the challenges of motherhood, leading to unexpected personal growth for them both.

After an accident, public interest lawyer Ning Yue starts to realize that the seemingly stable and happy marriage she thought she had was actually a web of lies and control, carefully woven by her husband, Hu Cheng, to keep her in the dark. As the truth emerges, Ning Yue refuses to remain passive, igniting a race against time. Will the frog be boiled alive, or will she break free from the web first?