short series

Midlife Romance

share time: 2026-01-17 12:31:00

Bai Fangwen, an investment banking elite, is framed and loses his job overnight. When everyone abandons him, only his childhood friend Zhao Tingyi, who runs a small pub, dares to take him in as a "waiter". The two middle-aged men—one clinging to his elite pride calculating costs, the other so stingy he saves even beer caps—are forced to team up: Bai needs to clear his name, Zhao needs to save his pub from closing down. Worse still, Bai meets Lin Xiaoman, a quirky trainee lawyer who insists on breaking into his closed heart; Zhao reunites with Su Xiaotang, a single mom he once regretted losing, now too afraid to get close. While bickering "How did you get worse as you age?", they secretly back each other up: Bai uses his banking skills to promote the pub, Zhao secretly gathers evidence for him; Lin melts Bai's defenses with her straightforwardness, Su teaches Zhao to "love again" with her gentleness. In this tearful yet heartwarming midlife restart, they finally realize: Home isn't a perfect life script, but someone who stays with you to turn bad cards into a sweet ending, and turn "life's Waterloo" into the start of a romance.

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