She was treated like livestock by her husband's family and sold like merchandise by her own father. On the night of her divorce, she clutched her feverish daughter and rushed into the torrential rain. Everyone thought she would die in the mud, in that broken-down temple, but they had no idea that an unyielding heart was being reborn in the depths of despair!
In 1983, autumn rain fell like knives.
She was Lin Zhaodi, a rural woman trampled into the mud by fate.
Her mother-in-law berated her, her husband beat her, and his mistress moved right into their home. Because she couldn't bear a son, they branded her a "jinx" and a "burden."
Her divorce papers were flung in her face. With her daughter burning with fever in her arms, she hid in a dilapidated temple. In the vast, rainy night, she had nowhere to go and no one to rely on.
She couldn't read and had little education, but she refused to accept her fate.
Just as she was on the brink of despair, a light pierced the darkness.
A literacy instructor from the county came splashing through the mud into the temple and offered her a handkerchief still warm from his body. "Don't be afraid. I'll take you to the hospital."
His name was Gu Yanshen. Refined and composed, with a gaze bright as a torch, he was the only light in her bleak world.
From a downtrodden "Zhaodi" to Lin Zhaodi, who turned the tables against all odds, she tears apart the chains of feudalism and smashes the shackles of male dominance!
Not by relying on a golden finger or a chance encounter, but by painstakingly learning every character in literacy class and carving out her dignity.
Not by marrying her way to a better life, but by using her own hands to forge a path through the waves of reform!
Open this book and see how, in the depths of despair, one woman rewrites the word "fate" into "fortune," stroke by stroke!
