Finding Peace of Mind Is the Way Back

On the day she burned her ten-year diary, Mengxuan thought she had burned away all her grievances; when she was diagnosed with cancer, she thought it was the darkest moment in her life; when she met Yan Nanyun, she thought she had finally grasped the light of redemption - but it was not until Yan Nanyun's wife sat in front of her with evidence that she realized that she was just repeatedly looking for the sense of security given by others in one dilemma after another. She had compromised in an ignorant marriage and endured her husband's neglect and betrayal for the sake of her children; she had also fallen into an extramarital affair, mistaking flattery for true love. It wasn't until the scam was exposed, and she stood in a strange city, looking at the students studying hard in the bookstore, and thinking of the grass in the yard of her hometown, that she suddenly understood the sentence in "The Meaning of Life": Life will never stop because of your pain. So she started to live anew: reading, writing, helping her daughter take care of her new home, and even the words she wrote during chemotherapy turned into "Sunshine in the Ward" that warmed others. During the snowy Spring Festival, when she saw her family sitting around, holding letters of thanks from readers in her hands, she finally realized: the so-called return journey is never about finding a perfect marriage or love, but about finding your own steadiness and peace of mind in ordinary daily life after going through ups and downs.