The Golden Age: I Helped My Whole Family Succeed

Liang Shufu was born in the countryside to a poor family. Her grandmother played favorites, her grandfather was stubborn and arrogant, her younger uncle was sly and selfish, her aunt was domineering and unreasonable, and her father was simplehearted and dutiful. Watching her mother toil and her little sister remain naive, Liang Shufu made careful plans at every step in the opportunity-filled 1980s. She became the village’s first college student and led her parents and little sister out of their swamp-like family situation. After graduation, she turned down the steady job everyone else coveted and became a self-employed businesswoman, someone nobody believed in. Drawing on her professional training, she started with a street stall and gradually built an empire of her own. Just as everyone mocked her for being an old maid no one would marry, it turned out she had already found her destined partner. They had once been rivals, then became partners, and were ultimately each other’s soulmate and devoted lover.