At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I’m Done Serving Everyone

Name: At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I’m Done Serving Everyone
Author: The Other Person Is Growing Their Hair

人到五十，操劳半生后我不伺候了

by The Other Person Is Growing Their Hair (对方正在长头发)

Status: Completed
Length: 1.2M Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Billionaire CEO
Updated: 1y ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

[Silver hair, a middle-aged woman awakens] Originally titled “At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I'm Done Serving Everyone”

After marrying Fu Guoping, Lin Yuelian spends more than ten years caring for her paralyzed mother-in-law.

She won't even buy herself a nice outfit, yet one day she sees her husband going around with his mistress, decked out in Chanel and carrying a Hermès crocodile-skin bag worth hundreds of thousands.

And the mistress isn't alone: she has a son out of wedlock, about ten years old.

The boy sweetly calls the old woman “Grandma,” and she says that all the family property will belong to him one day.

Her husband is even more lavish, promising to buy the mistress and her son a duplex villa, each one costing five million.

As for Lin Yuelian, she still lives in the shabby, rundown housing her husband's work unit allocated over twenty years ago.

Betrayed by her husband, Lin Yuelian finally sees the truth. She wasted the first half of her life on a worthless man. For the rest of it, she will be free and live for herself.

She wants a divorce

Her husband sneers: “All you know how to do is cook and clean. You can't survive without me.”

Her mother-in-law scoffs: “Weren't all the women of our generation like this? Who hasn't suffered a little? You're old enough to know better than to act like a youngster and demand a divorce!”

Her aunts and other female relatives try to talk her out of it: “You've made it through half a lifetime already. There are only twenty or thirty years left. Just put up with it and it'll be over.”

Put up with it? She's put up with this for her whole life. She's done serving them!

Everyone waits to laugh at Lin Yuelian, a middle-aged woman left alone and helpless after her divorce.

But who could have guessed that she would not only return to the workforce, but also see her career soar?

And in love, she finds a second chance at happiness!

What? The man she meets on a blind date and marries again turns out to be the richest man in the capital?

Her ex-husband's family regrets everything and begs her through tears to change her mind and come back.

A group of imposing bodyguards blocks their way: “Sorry, our madam says she doesn't know you poor relatives!”

Other names

I've Reached Fifty After a Lifetime of Toil. I'm Done Putting Up With This人活五十，操劳半生的我不伺候了Former title · until Oct 2026

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16.6kReads · 30 days

4.2MReads · all time

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