The Year of Standing Firm

This film (drama)Also known as而立之年，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2013Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating5.0(For reference only)。

Young man Cao Million from rural Shandong (played by Xia Yu) marries Chongqing girl Cong Xiaoming (played by Mei Ting) in Shanghai, despite both families believing they are mismatched. After marriage, Xiaoming gives birth to a daughter, Hua Dajie. Cao's father (played by Li Wannian) feels disheartened due to his preference for sons, and Million can only persuade his mother-in-law, Zheng Xiulan (played by Ding Jiali), to come to Shanghai to help take care of the child. Million, who studies art, mistakenly gets into sales with his friend Qiu Jian (played by Wang Ce), and their performance is as expected. Xiaoming, meanwhile, stays home due to various reasons. Qiu Jian's girlfriend, Xiaoman, has conflicts with her boyfriend's family over buying a house and ends up leaving with a businessman from Hong Kong. Zheng Xiulan, frustrated by her in-laws delaying their visit to Shanghai to see their granddaughter, angrily returns to Chongqing, forcing Cao's parents to come to Shanghai. In order to have a grandson, Cao manipulates his daughter-in-law's contraceptive pills, resulting in an unexpected pregnancy for Xiaoming, which infuriates Million as he suspects his wife of infidelity. Once the truth comes out, Xiaoming is deeply disappointed in Cao's parents...