Return the Fragrance of Plum Blossoms

In the twelfth month of winter, a thin girl was washing clothes by the river. The freezing river water could not cool her heart. She was a helper at Aunt Littlefoot's house, and Aunt Littlefoot arranged a marriage for her, a marriage that she was very unwilling to do but did not dare to go against her mother's wishes. Her name is Mei Xiang, and the suffering hand of fate has opened the stage of her life. She has a persevering and open-minded personality, is kind, hard-working, and capable in doing things, but she can only adhere to feudal ethics. Her marriage, due to the different growth environment and education levels, created an estrangement between her husband and her, which eventually led to emotional betrayal, but she still endured and persevered; for the future of the family, she was introduced by her neighbors to work as a "helper" in Beijing; later, due to her husband's illness, she returned to her hometown to work in farming; when her four children came of age, for the sake of their children's future, she had to leave her hometown again and join the team of hourly workers... As the children formed their own small families one by one, she returned to live in the countryside. After the conflict with her husband intensified again, she finally chose to get out of the shackles of her marriage - she wanted a divorce. Under the strong opposition of her children, she kept her marriage in name only, resolutely chose to live apart, and started a new chapter in her life with her youngest daughter who returned to her hometown to start a business...