Su Nian has been living in the appearance of a "perfect marriage". Faced with her husband's cold violence, her mother-in-law's pickiness, and her mother's advice to "be patient for the sake of her children," she has been digesting all her emotions with a smile for eight years after being married. Until the body alarms: insomnia, stomachache, hives.
When her husband forgot her birthday again, when she discovered her husband's ambiguous chat with a female colleague, when her five-year-old daughter drew a "daddy's face without facial features," and when a gastroscopy review appeared in the physical examination report, Su Nian began to reflect. With the help of her best friend Jiang Wan, she moved out of her original home and entered the consulting room of psychological counselor Jiang Li, where she began a long process of self-reconstruction.
She gradually realized that the root of her pleasing personality came from the intergenerational transmission of her family of origin - her mother's lifelong "forbearance" shaped her "smile". She firmly embarked on the road to divorce, experiencing legal battles, mother-daughter conflicts and reconciliation, and career reconstruction. In the end, she founded a campus psychology studio, created psychological picture books, reached a deep reconciliation with her mother, and met a man who truly respected her—but she chose to live her life as a complete person first.
The whole book starts with the awakening of marriage, takes the healing of the original family as the depth, and ends with female self-realization. Real, warm and powerful.
Purpose: It is not just about a woman's counterattack after divorce, but also about how the pleasing personality is passed down from generation to generation between mother and daughter, and how it is discovered and broken. Learn actionable self-growth methods from the story.
