The words Chen Xiufen has said most in her life are: "Okay", "It's okay", and "I'll pass it on to you".
When she was ten years old, she didn't ask where the money to build a house came from.
She dropped out of school at the age of fourteen, but she never told her mother, "I am here for this family."
At the age of seventeen, she didn't tell anyone that she had a lover.
At the age of thirty, she was raising her brother who was not working and paying for her father's medicine. She said to her mother on the phone: "Mom, I know."
This novel uses restrained writing to record the life of an ordinary rural girl who is "taken for granted" by default. It is not sensational or painful, but in its calm narrative, it allows you to see the heartbreaking exhaustion and tenacity in the eyes of a thirty-year-old woman.
