A Country Girl's Survival Guide in the Nineties

On the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1993, on a bitterly cold day, Liu Xin made her grand entrance.

There was no difficult birth, no auspicious sign, just a poor family, a helpless mother, a two-year-old big sister, and a worthless father.

The elders used to say that children don't remember much before the age of ten, but Liu Xin was absolutely certain she remembered everything from the age of three onward. As a result, she was more clear-eyed than her peers, and much harder to handle...