Xiao Nan hated her name. She had never received the treatment a man deserved, and life was still so hard.
She had led an ordinary life for 25 years, with almost no career to speak of. Just when she thought she had finally found a good husband, she discovered that this marriage was the most extraordinary thing to happen to her as an ordinary person. What she had taken for signs that others valued her turned out to be a means of concealing secrets.
Her older sister had married far away and was living a hard life, while her intellectually disabled younger brother was being manipulated. Of her only two close friends, one had become someone’s mistress, and the other was having an affair with a married man.
Perhaps life was like one giant cocoon, while the torrents surging through it pushed her to learn how to break free and become a butterfly.
