Her mother was abducted. In 1988, shoe repairman Wang Defa spent 800 yuan to buy back a Guizhou woman, and gave birth to Su Tianci the next year. A girl who was not expected since she was a child, grew up in the cold eyes of her patriarchal father. When her father passed away when she was eighteen years old, she took the unfilled hole in her heart and worked hard to study, work, and take exams, and made her way from the county town to the provincial capital.
At the age of twenty-three, she met Fang Yanting - gentle and restrained, just right in proportion, more than twenty years older than her, and had a family. He helped her revise her materials, recommended her for secondment, and always appeared when she needed it most. The cuffs of my shirt came off and no one sewed them, and my marriage had been stuck for 20 years and no one talked about it. He said, "By helping you, I'm probably helping myself."
She tried her best to climb up, and he tried his best to step back - paving the way for her and arranging an escape route for himself. Three years in a different place, dozens of handwritten postcards, and a divorce. When he finally stood in front of her and said, "Would you like to be with me?", She only replied: It's only been three years, I'll wait.
From being a "little girl" who was rejected, to becoming a teaching and research expert in the city; from not daring to expect to be loved, to finally having the courage to say "I am worth it" - she has walked this road for nearly thirty years.
A story about lack, struggle, secret love and self-redemption. Su Tianci was not waiting for someone to save her, she was waiting for herself to gather enough strength to fill the hole in her heart.
