Introduction to the novel:
A decisive resistance completed with a hoe rewrote the trajectory of a woman's life.
In order to escape from her violent ex-husband and desperate life, she wielded a hoe in the bloody dusk and embarked on an endless road of escape. From the coast of southern Fujian to the Wuhan dock, she kept her name anonymous, burying her fears and past deeply. Until she met the shop owner who was willing to take her in - a strange kindness that became the only light in her cold world. She repaid this kindness with hard work and took root here. Eventually she married her kind boss, had children, and built a warm and lively family.
However, under the years of stability and happiness, there is always a hidden scar: the son who was helplessly left in a cruel place, and a mother's love that cannot be delivered. She sent her meager concern anonymously, but she could never send away her inner guilt. When mother and son finally reunited decades later, her son's words of "I don't blame you" released the shackles of blood ties, but it failed to melt the ice of self-punishment in her heart.
This is a story about escape and rebirth, redemption and guilt. A woman spent her whole life running to escape the shadow of violence, but she never escaped the heavy judgment of her identity as a "mother."
