After ten years of hard work in their marriage, they were rewarded with gambling debts and betrayal by her husband Li Guoqiang.
Thirty-five-year-old Chen Yumei returned to her hometown's dilapidated tile-roofed house with her son and daughter, dragging two old suitcases.
The villagers pointed fingers and called her "the divorced woman no one wants"; her relatives looked on indifferently, waiting to see the joke.
But she did not fall down. Starting from setting up a stall and selling breakfast, she supported her family bit by bit and gave her children a new life bit by bit.
Some people mocked her, some sympathized with her, and some were quietly paying attention to her tenacity and kindness.
The honest and taciturn carpenter Sun Houren would always lend a pair of rough hands when he was needed most.
Life is not easy, but she understands that relying on yourself is the real confidence.
This is not a vigorous counterattack, but a down-to-earth and steady life reconstruction.
Divorce is not the end of her life, but the starting point of a new life.
