She Is Her Country

34 Years old, divorced, raising two children, life is over? Lin Xiao discovered that her husband spent 428 yuan at a music restaurant on the day she gave birth to her second child. She didn't cry or make a fuss, she collected evidence and filed for divorce. The day of the divorce was the winter solstice, the coldest day of the year. But she said: "I can do it alone." My mother-in-law, Li Xiufen, came to help after she retired. There is a map of China posted on the wall that has been there for 20 years. The map of Dunhuang was poked with a finger. She wanted to go, but she never went there even once. My sister-in-law, Li Xiang, is a doctor in a tertiary hospital. She is unmarried and does not have children and raises cats. She was forced into silence by her own mother who urged her to get married. She said: "It's not that I don't want to get married, I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married." Three women crowded into a rented house, jumping from chicken to dog, lifting each other up. She is her country. It is not a country for one person, but a place where every woman can finally live for herself.