Night Like Snow

Her ex-husband, Xu Kun, drank heavily, beat her, and cheated on her with her best friend, Xiao Hong. She divorced him. Then she got a job at a window and door factory under Sanjiang Group, only for Boss Zhao to grope her during a dinner gathering. She neither made a scene nor cried. She quietly saved the recordings and notes, then handed the evidence to Boss Zhao's wife and quit.

A jelly stall beside the restrooms at the South City night market charged eight yuan a bowl. It was enough to keep her going.

After a bitter fight in his new marriage, her ex finally remembered how good she had been and came looking for her. One bowl of jelly was all it took to send him away. Her current boyfriend, Wang Shuai, hadn't stood up for her back then. Later, he squatted in a shabby storefront, painting the walls and setting up the shop, then stood in front of her stall to shield her from thugs. Ruxue didn't cry, and she didn't take him back right away.

From being trampled into the mud to hanging up a sign that read "Ruxue's Jelly," she finally understood: a woman's surest support isn't a man, but the bowl in her own hands...