Thirty Years After "I Do"

The female protagonist grew up in a remote mountainous area. To fund her younger brother's education, she dropped out of middle school and started working in the city, where she met her future husband who worked as a security guard at an elementary school. Through a matchmaker's introduction, the two got married smoothly. During their marriage, she diligently and conscientiously managed household affairs, supported her husband, raised their children, and selflessly devoted herself to her family-first philosophy. By the age of fifty, with her children grown and grandchildren around her - an age when she should have been enjoying life - she found herself increasingly adrift in existential confusion. The turning point came at her 50th birthday celebration, where her husband shockingly brought the woman he had always admired to the birthday gathering.