Thirty-six-year-old Lin Xiulian, guarding the fireworks and the trivial matters of her family, endured a full sixteen years of marriage.
She worked from sunrise to sunset, farming and feeding pigs, serving her parents-in-law, taking care of the children, taking care of the housework, and spent all her best youth in the Wang family.
What can be exchanged is never understanding and cherishment.
Her husband, Wang Jianjun, has been indifferent and turned a blind eye all year round. Her husband's family insists on extorting and exploiting her, wronging her in everything and owed her time and time again.
When people reach middle age, their days are as numb as stagnant water, and their grievances pile up like mountains, with no one to tell them and no one to feel sorry for them.
Just when she was at her most depressed, broken, and lonely, the gentle and considerate fellow countryman Chen Feng suddenly broke into her life.
Lin Xiulian, who had never been treated gently by anyone, was lost and confused for a moment, and stepped into the quagmire of ambiguity that she should not touch.
The short-term illusory warmth was replaced by endless fear, guilt, rumors and self-pulling.
She cried bitterly late at night, reflected soberly, and finally saw through: there is no redemption outside of marriage, only abyss; other people's tenderness is like sugar, but also a knife.
A confused thought is a mistake, but stopping the loss in time is enlightenment.
Lin Xiulian cut off all wrong ties with her own hands, no longer attached to marriage, no longer humble to please, no longer willing to give in.
Farming, setting up stalls, making crafts, producing specialties, and selling products, she is down-to-earth step by step, building a career, establishing a foothold, raising children, and cultivating herself.
From a wronged daughter-in-law who can be bullied by everyone, she becomes a strong man in the village who takes charge of her own life.
When people reach middle age, divorce is not a desperate situation, but sobriety is rebirth.
The countryside is cool and the years are getting late. Lin Xiulian, who is in her thirties, finally lives for herself, letting the rest of her life bloom with dignity and magnanimity.
Intention: Live for yourself for the last time, and let the rest of your life be prosperous, dignified and magnanimous.