She waited ten years for spring and spent a lifetime proving that even those who have been abandoned can choose to love.
In 1953, her father died in the Korean War. In 1955, her mother remarried, and she began a life dependent on other people.
In 1969, her stepfather sent her off to the countryside with the educated youth, while buying his own daughter a job at a city factory. At seventeen, she was cast aside for good.
In the countryside, she married the farmer who had saved her, only to be thrown out three years later because she couldn’t have children. Harassed by local thugs, abandoned by her ex-husband, and shunned by the whole village, she sat sobbing on a field ridge until dawn, even thinking of ending it all by jumping into the river.
In 1977, news came that the college entrance exams were being reinstated. She earned work points by day and copied books by lamplight at night, staking her entire future on a single exam admission ticket.
This is her life: from an abandoned martyr’s orphan, to a cast-off educated youth, to a medical student, a surgeon, and the mother of two orphans.
This isn’t a story about a hero. It’s about someone who looked up at the stars from the mire and found a way to become a light for others…
