At the age of thirty-eight, Su Guixiang's sky fell.
The man had an accident in the mine and suffered a comminuted fracture of his lumbar spine. He was paralyzed in bed for the rest of his life.
The three children were crying for food. Her mother-in-law pointed at her nose and called her a "broom star."
Su Guixiang didn't cry or make a fuss. She took the last two hundred yuan from her family and set up a wonton stall at the gate of the mining area.
Everyone in the town laughed at this miserable woman with three children, until that day, Han Tiezhu, the leader of the coal transport convoy who was rumored to be cruel and bad-tempered, strode up to her stall.
