"How desperate does a person have to be to decide to have a child?"

At thirty-six, acclaimed author Qiaomai became a mother—a decision she describes as "surrendering to something." When her literary career stalled and her dream of an “unconventional” life faded, the ambition that once shielded her from societal pressures and the ticking biological clock crumbled. INFINITE AND LIMITED is her unflinching post-mortem of that surrender.

For years, Qiaomai desperately tried to remain "a mother who isn't a mother," fearing the maternal identity would expand until it consumed her entire being.

Yet, as time passed, she discovered a startling truth: becoming a mother does not happen in the delivery room. It is a slow, creeping transformation forged through the inevitable, daily tightening of a bond with another human being. Through this profound complexity, she not only rediscovers her own fractured self but finally begins to understand her mother, and the countless mothers surrounding her.

INFINITE AND LIMITED provides a vital, female-centric narrative of the "New Me" born alongside the child. It is also a literary anatomy of her evolution from a woman committed to a childfree life to a mother navigating the "infinite" demands of caregiving within the "limited" boundaries of her own identity.