They Forced Me Out, So I Sold the House Overnight

About the story

Widowed for many years, 56-year-old Liu Huifang has devoted herself to looking after her only son. Yet her son and daughter-in-law pack her bags, buy her a hard-seat train ticket, and demand that she transfer ownership of her house so they can bring the daughter-in-law's parents to live in the city. Liu Huifang pretends to agree, then sells the house and buys a smaller home of her own. Her daughter-in-law's family block her doorway to seize the money, only to be exposed for having long used their son-in-law's wages to support their own son. Only after falling into debt and getting divorced does Liu Huifang's son come to his senses. But she no longer builds her life around her child: she learns to dance and paint, making the rest of her life a new springtime of her own.