[Reborn in the 1970s] [Clear-Headed Female Lead] [Divorced and Never Remarried] [Career Growth] [Ensemble of Women]
Back in 1974, Xu Lan walked into her husband's workplace and submitted a divorce petition.
Everyone asked, "What's so bad about Zhou Mingyuan?"
He had a respectable job, handed over his wages, and treated her with tenderness. Now he was about to transfer to a major factory, and their life was only getting better. So why was she so determined to divorce him?
Xu Lan knew exactly how her life would go if she stayed with him.
First, she'd quit her job and wait for her husband to get established. Then she'd put away her textbooks and wait for the children to grow up. After that, she'd care for the elderly and run the household, waiting until her family no longer needed her.
In her previous life, she kept waiting until she was fifty-eight.
This time, she wouldn't wait.
Her husband tried to talk her out of it. "We can discuss your plans later."
Xu Lan pushed the application closer to him. "We'll discuss my plans now."
After the divorce, she moved out of the staff compound and into a leaky little room. Starting as a temporary worker, she picked up the textbooks she'd set aside years ago.
Little by little, she saved money and learned new skills. She wrote her own name on her work ID, her admission letter, and her diploma.
The dreams she'd once put aside with a simple "later" finally had dates of their own.
Later, someone asked for her help, casually saying, "It's not like you have anything else to do."
Xu Lan opened her class schedule.
"Thursday won't work. I have class that day."
