Tumbleweed

In 2016, in response to the national policy encouraging second children, Cheng Simin’s middle-aged parents welcomed a new baby into the family during the winter of that year. From then on, at the age of nineteen, Cheng Simin embarked on a seven-year battle against her family to claim her share of personal assets. Working part-time while studying, migrating to Beijing for work, rejecting arranged blind dates, and eventually purchasing an apartment with a single loan—every life decision she made was a deliberate act of defiance against the outdated family system. But when the economy declined and competition became unbearable, Cheng Simin found herself unable to keep up with her mortgage pa...