Staying Behind: A Way Out

This book tells the story of Fan Aiyuan in the 1960s, who used night school to escape illiteracy, then fell in love with Huang Yichi, who had long been in love with her. Later, at the age of fifty-five, she divorced on the same day as her son Huang Yichuan, then entered a "license-free union" with Huang Yichi.

She became an open-minded and rather talented peasant woman. During the period when the women stayed behind in the village, she experienced many stories with eight other women from the same village who were also left behind by their families.

Together, these women were called the Nine Broken Flowers of Pengyang. Some were chaste women, some talented women, some poisonous women, some fierce women... Naturally, their life endings were all different. In the author's hands, the women left behind in Pengyang Village are like flowers in the mist, the moon in the mirror, immortals in the sky, and goddesses among women...