English

Sinopsis

Back in the 1970s and 80s, top student Su Wanqing marries into the Chen family to repay her mother’s kindness. For ten years, she is exploited by her in-laws and betrayed by her husband. She resolutely divorces. Drawing on her long-held professional knowledge, she joins a state-owned factory, rising from consultant to deputy technical director and leading the factory through transformation. Meanwhile, the Chens collapse due to illegal stockpiling, corruption and fraud, and her ex-husband lands in jail. Su Wanqing proves with her strength that a wasted half-life can be reclaimed by herself.