[The entire story is fictional. Please do not compare it to real life!]
She opens her eyes to find herself in 1952, reborn as the fourth daughter in the Su family of Jiagou, a girl with a life worth less than dirt.
Her family has been poor for three generations, with barely enough to get by. Because she was born a girl, her mother called her a money-losing burden, her grandfather resented her for eating their food, and even her three older sisters stole her thin gruel and kicked her off the earthen bed.
The whole village is convinced that when the little girl grows up, she'll either be traded for a bride price or starve to death in the mountains. Either way, she's destined for nothing.
No one knows that this baby in swaddling clothes carries the memories of an entire era.
While everyone else is fighting over a mouthful of bran gruel, she has already mapped out the decades ahead: seize opportunities, build connections, and climb the political ladder.
At six, while all the village girls squat in the fields cutting pigweed, she is the only one with a schoolbag on her back, sitting in class;
At ten, a commune leader visits the village to conduct research, troubled by a problem. One sentence from her opens his eyes, and he immediately takes her under his wing as his “little adviser”;
At eighteen, she relies on her own abilities to overcome every obstacle, making her way from the mountain village to a government office in the provincial capital and leaving everyone who looked down on her far behind in the mud.
From a village girl everyone despises to a powerful figure with authority in her hands, she moves forward one careful step at a time and becomes a legend admired by an entire era.
Those who once trampled on and insulted her don't even deserve the chance to kneel before her and submit a report.
Then Shen Huaiyuan, a battle-hardened man of icy reserve who keeps everyone at arm's length, repeatedly steps in front of her, clearing obstacles, deflecting hidden attacks, and paving her way.
Only then do people realize:
This powerful woman is already someone no one dares cross. And the man standing behind her is someone no one in the world dares lay a hand on.
It doesn't look good. The mother is written like an enemy. Is this how to highlight the conflict?
I've read a few chapters, it's pretty good