In the southern countryside in the 1980s, Huang Chengfan originally had a stable childhood. His father, Huang Shouli, worked in a commune and felt superior to others because of his iron rice bowl. He disliked his wife Lu Yunshu, who was working as a farmer, for her narrow vision. The ideological gap between the two was difficult to bridge. The father cruelly abandoned the whole family and eloped with outsiders. The beautiful family was suddenly shattered.
Mother Lu Yunshu took care of the old man and the young Huang Chengfan siblings, and took root in the fields to make a living alone. The life of poverty was difficult, with gossip and harassment coming one after another, but she gritted her teeth and refused to remarry, and tried her best to protect her children and elders. Huang Chengfan was severely shattered by family upheaval. His grades, which were once among the best, plummeted. After entering the city, he went astray, got into fights, and picked up bad habits. His life once hit rock bottom.
After many twists and turns, he chose to enlist in the army to settle down. After retiring from the army, he went through a period of confusion. Coinciding with the rapid development of the times, he seized the opportunities in the real estate industry and worked hard step by step, investing in a business until the company was successfully listed.
After half a life of ups and downs, the boy has already grown up. Looking back at the past, my mother spent her youth enduring grievances and sufferings and never had half of the joy. She owed all her tenderness in the past, but now that Huang Chengfan has become famous, he only wants to make up for his regrets. He took his mother to enjoy her old age, and spent the rest of his life with him and prosperity to repay her decades of loneliness.
The novel is adapted from true past events. Through the ups and downs of mother and son, it tells the story of rural women's helplessness in marriage in the old days. It also writes about the touching journey of a prodigal son turning back and nurturing his loving mother.
