Main characters: Jiang Niannian and Lu Qiao
They were childhood sweethearts, close since they were young.
Her parents fiercely opposed them, but she stole the household registration booklet and married Lu Qiao without hesitation, cutting herself off from her family for good.
When times were hardest, she drank until she bled from the stomach and still refused to stop, pushing herself to the brink just to keep their little family afloat.
After all their hardships, he became successful, and she was content to step back, devote herself to home cooking, and give birth to an adorable daughter.
She thought this was the beginning of their happiness.
But on their daughter's second birthday, she collapsed alone in the cold kitchen, unnoticed until she finally managed to get up late that night.
A diagnosis landed like a blow:
She was going to die.
