What is more difficult: getting married at thirty-one or winning the Nobel Prize? For the writer of romance novels Mania Korytnikova, this was equally impossible. Or rather, her mother thought so. And Manya... simply wrote books and valued her freedom. Until I saw him in the corridor of the publishing house - the nationwide detective detective Alexei Kronsky! And away we go... The romance flared up with such force that sparks flew in all directions! But... the writer's love turned out to be short-lived - and on New Year's Eve, Manya found her chosen one in the arms of a drunken blonde. So what's now? Holing up in the village - in the company of my mother and her twenty cats? Or... respond to the advances of Vlas, a businessman, and therefore a very promising groom?..