Her Name is Zhiwei
"She's clearly a canary, yet insists on projecting an image of an independent, strong woman. This forced 'feeding of feces' might be counterproductive, wouldn't it?"
Shen Zhiwei, an art student at Columbia University, suddenly receives devastating news of her mother's critical illness. At this time, her boyfriend Zhou Xuanyu betrays her, a betrayal orchestrated by Li Fuqiang, a wealthy businessman thirty years her senior whom she has frequently encountered recently.
With no other recourse, she enters into a marriage. Over the course of their ten-year marriage, she endures various incidents, including a photo scandal, sexual assault of a female employee, extramarital affairs, and even contracting HPV. She maintains her integrity, treating the marriage as a job from an observer's perspective, and progressively builds her fashion empire.
It isn't until her mother's passing and her encounter with the idealistic young man Song Tianming that her dormant heart stirs for the first time. However, Tianming's unexpected death, along with a dried rose he sent her, completely awakens her – she realizes she can still love, and still wants to love.
She resolutely proposes divorce, but Li Fuqiang dies suddenly the very next day. Faced with a paternity test and an illegitimate child who suddenly appear, the young lady Li Jiaqi is forced to collaborate with Zhiwei. Ultimately, in the battle for billions in inheritance, Zhiwei exits with 2 billion in cash, going overseas.
Three years later, she returns, no longer a dodder flower dependent on a wealthy family, but a wild rose holding assets worth tens of billions, blooming freely and unrestrained. She lives life on her own terms, surrounded by a constant stream of young, talented men, always maintaining clarity amid emotions and desires.
From being forced to break a branch to blooming on her own accord, she dedicates her life to writing: the most beautiful way a woman can live is to finally live for herself. This is a legend about loss and awakening, confinement and liberation; moreover, it is a magnificent epic of female self-redemption.