Wild grass grows anywhere, even in the cracks between stones.
The stronger the wind blows, the more determined she is to bloom.
She said, “I’m not trying to see him sent to prison. I want him to know that money and fists can’t bring a woman who’s stood back up to her knees.
She said, “Girls like us, with no one to lean on, have to stick together.”
In 1991, she was eight, squatting outside the civil affairs bureau. Her birth mother didn’t want her, and her birth father wouldn’t take care of her.
In 2012, she stood on the roof of her company, watching the sunrise.
She said to herself, “Su Si, you’ve really made something of yourself.”
