On my fifty-fifth birthday, I cooked a table full of dishes.
Braised pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, steamed sea bass - they are all their favorites. The husband disliked the pork ribs, the daughter-in-law disliked the pork ribs not being sweet enough, and the son just scrolled through his cell phone. No one remembers that today is my birthday.
After eating, the daughter-in-law said, "Mom, please move back and take care of the kids." The husband said, "You're too old, so don't worry about it." The son said, "Mom, the kids miss you."
I put down my chopsticks: "I won't come back. Wang Jianguo, let's get a divorce."
They laughed at me like I was crazy: Fifty-five years old, divorced? Who wants you if you get divorced?
I said: "No one wants me, I want me myself."
This novel tells the story of this "mad woman". After moving into a rental house, my son blocked the door and scolded me, I was pestered by my ex-husband, I was gossiped about by my relatives, I was sick and had a fever, lying in bed alone and thinking, "No one will know if I die"——
But she also met her best friend who really loved her, her future mother-in-law who loved her as her daughter, and the man in a white shirt who would stand in front of her when she was blocked in the corridor and say: "You have a bad waist, don't scare her."
Thirty-six consecutive twists and turns, thirty-six times to get up. She has grown from an invisible person who "no one remembers her birthday" to a woman who dares to call the police to arrest her ex-husband, who dares to post long articles in family groups, and who dares to say to the world, "I pay only if I want to, not if I have to."
This is not a cool article, it is a story about an ordinary woman learning to love herself in the second half of her life.
Written to all those who are fifty-five years old and finally decide to live for themselves.
Reader comments
Being nice to people who don't deserve it is self-abuse. People who advise you to go back and endure it say, stay away!
This is the first time I read this kind of subject and I found it very readable.
A woman is herself first, then her wife, mother, daughter...
Real, unpretentious and down-to-earth
Most of them are well written and very close to life. But it is not rigorous in some places. Sometimes it is said that Chen Mu's son works in Beijing, and sometimes he goes to university in Beijing and returns to his hometown to work locally after graduation.
A down-to-earth book, just like the current situation of my life. The protagonist is like me, in a widowed marriage. Fortunately, she was brave enough to come out and meet her true love.
Being nice to people who don't deserve it is self-abuse. People who advise you to go back and endure it say, stay away!
This is the first time I read this kind of subject and I found it very readable.
A woman is herself first, then her wife, mother, daughter...
Real, unpretentious and down-to-earth
Most of them are well written and very close to life. But it is not rigorous in some places. Sometimes it is said that Chen Mu's son works in Beijing, and sometimes he goes to university in Beijing and returns to his hometown to work locally after graduation.
A down-to-earth book, just like the current situation of my life. The protagonist is like me, in a widowed marriage. Fortunately, she was brave enough to come out and meet her true love.
I feel the same way!
It's really awesome. It sounds great.