[Build a business first, then sweet romance; age gap; younger rugged battalion commander x clear-headed older woman after divorce; traditional period piece, no dimensional space, no golden finger]
At forty, Li Tiemei used nothing but her butcher's cleaver to support her live-in son-in-law of a husband and put him through school until he landed a permanent job at the machinery factory.
But on their wedding anniversary, the scumbag brought the factory director's divorced daughter back to the village. After Li caught them in bed, he even demanded that she leave with nothing.
Li Tiemei neither cried nor made a scene. She brought her butcher's cleaver down on the Eight Immortals table and chopped it to pieces. “You can get out, but spit back everything you ate of mine and return everything you took from me!”
She took back the house, stripped him of his job, and ruined his family's reputation until they were driven out of the village.
After the divorce, her children went to the city with their good-for-nothing father to live the high life, and her wicked mother-in-law packed up and left too.
Tiemei, meanwhile, set up a huge iron pot, washed stinking pig intestines, and started selling fragrant platters of braised pork.
Pig ears, pork head, intestine noodles... Her food had people salivating for miles around, and she made a fortune.
Just as her ex and his family were down on their luck, regretting everything, and assuming nobody would want Tiemei, the village's most promising man, a rugged battalion commander who had been away for years, came back in a jeep.
He cornered Tiemei in front of her braising pot, eyes red. “Sister Tiemei, we agreed I'd marry you when I grew up, but you got married. Now that you're single, it's my turn, right?”
Look, as long as a woman is more ruthless than a man, you can live your own wonderful life instead of dying to help others. Those women who are so cowardly that they commit suicide are really pitiful.
If a person is not ruthless, he cannot stand.
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