A flash flood struck without warning. In a single night, seven-year-old Ai Guixuan lost both parents and her younger brother, left all alone in the world.
Reborn, she refused to let fate control her again. She made fish-scale jelly and sold it along the streets, scraping together enough money and food to survive.
She would quietly linger outside the town's primary school, listening to lessons and seizing every chance to study and learn.
Later, she met Tang Quan, another orphan. The two supported each other, moving from place to place and trying their hands at all kinds of work, slowly building up their savings.
She achieved her dream of becoming a teacher at a private school, but was forced to leave because she lacked the necessary qualifications.
After years of struggling through the ups and downs of countless trades, she founded a company and funded the construction of a school.
In her old age, surrounded by children and grandchildren, she reunited with the younger brother she had been separated from for a full fifty years. Together, the siblings built a sunset empire.
