Lights Like Smoke

People born in the 1990s are gradually reaching the age of marriage. Gu Xia Zi had barely graduated from college when Sun Rui, who was two years older and already working, proposed to her. She married him and spent the next ten years as a housewife. Because his family favored boys over girls, she could never hold her head high in front of her in-laws after giving birth to two daughters.

When her third child came along, Gu Xia Zi was surprised to find herself pregnant. Before she could even decide what to do, she discovered that her husband was cheating. She decisively divorced him and left with nothing but her two daughters. Life was unbearably hard, and in despair, she struggled to find even the faintest glimmer of hope.

Reborn, she finally seized her chance. Despite being scammed, misunderstood, and facing all kinds of other hardships, she bravely overcame every obstacle. She started out as a live-in nanny, worked herself to the bone to earn a nursing certificate, then, with the help of her childhood friend Wan Ling, co-founded a nursing home and ushered in the springtime of her career.

A year later, at the peak of her success, she ran into her once-confident ex-husband, now a down-and-out ordinary employee. When he chased after her begging to get back together, Gu Xia Zi slapped him and said, "Get lost!"