West Street in a Small Town [The 1980s]

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Her big brother showed movies at the cinema, her second sister worked as a saleswoman at the supply and marketing cooperative, and her third sister worked at a state-run pharmacy. They all had secure jobs. Li Hesui was the only one who set up a stall by the east wall of the cooperative to fry dough sticks. She barely made any money each day, yet had to feed her siblings, who never gave her a single cent.

The neighbors on West Street teased Li Hesui, saying that even though all the siblings worked on the same street, their fates were worlds apart. Her own siblings thought the same.

In her siblings' eyes, Li Hesui was little more than the family's kitchen maid. They thought she'd fry dough sticks for the rest of her life, providing free meals for them and even their future children.

Then one day, Li Hesui stopped running around after them. She moved out, and even stopped frying dough sticks. Later, when the young chief of the West Street police station brought a matchmaker to her door to propose, her siblings gradually realized that their little sister was no longer the fool who would give them everything. She had become a powerful villain they would have to cling to for dear life, even if she scolded them like dogs.

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Theme: Set boundaries, hold your ground, and live in peace.