Ordinary Weakling

This article focuses on Wu Xiaoxin's growth process in the late 1970s. The ups and downs of her parents caused the young siblings to live in panic and anxiety since childhood, and they experienced the hardships and humiliation of life early on. As the wave of reform and opening up swept across, neighbors and villagers built small buildings one after another and entered the business world. The Wu family's life had just started to improve, but their father suddenly changed his mind, and his mother was overwhelmed and became mentally disturbed. This sudden family accident pushed the Wu Xiaoxin siblings into a precarious situation, forcing them to grow up in hardship. The shackles of poverty have firmly trapped Xiaoxin's family. They guard a dilapidated adobe house, and the siblings feel so inferior all day long that they cannot lift their heads. The rich grandmother favors her sisters, which causes a growing gap between them. Poverty is like a sharp knife. It first took away the life of the brother of Xiao Xin, a classmate who was suffering from chronic malnutrition, and then forced the wife of his father's colleague Xiao Wang to abandon the family. Xiao Wang was in a daze and fell off the factory floor and broke his leg. Xiaoxin is unwilling to let poverty choke her destiny, and is full of desire to live a prosperous life. She saw the sisters in the alley whose parents were divorced and abandoned, and they worked hard to support their clothing business. She also saw the young man Dacheng, who had to support his five younger siblings due to the sudden death of his father, opened a barber shop with hard work, and lived a prosperous life. All these made Xiaoxin more determined to find a way out of poverty for herself. After years of searching for a way to get rich, the grown-up siblings Xiaoxin and their father finally found a business opportunity and made their way into the world. Unexpectedly...