At sixteen, Fu Zhiya wakes on the day she finished her high school entrance exam, decades before her husband, sister, and mother shattered her life.
This time, she refuses to carry anyone else’s debts.
As she cuts ties with a family that never truly chose her, faces old betrayals in their earliest forms, and fights for her education, she begins to discover what it means to live for herself.
But freedom is never given freely—and every boundary she draws forces the people around her to reveal who they really are.