Before his death, his ex-husband mouthed "Thank you for taking the blame for me." When I opened my eyes again, at the civil service interview scene in 2010, a 22-year-old body contained the machinations and hatred of a 30-year-old.
In this life, she wants power. She rose step by step from an ordinary civil servant in a township. She once advanced money to buy sheep, repaired heavy rains, avenged her father, and fought her way in the battlefield of men.
The third-generation grandson of the Gu family was willing to be her scabbard, but at the peak of her power, she discovered that what she wanted most was for her daughter to call her mother for the first time, and it was him who said, "I will accompany you wherever you go."
From being a single parent to having four generations living under the same roof, she spent two lifetimes proving that the most advanced strategy is knowing how to advance and retreat, and the rarest perfection is having someone waiting for you to come home.