Su Min left an abusive husband and the monotony of routine life to seek freedom and happiness on the open road
The beige tent measures 1.4 meters in width and 2.4 meters in length, and 57-year-old Su Min set it up all by herself on the roof of her white car. For more than 200 nights, she has slept in this tent alone without a husband to take care of, housework to finish, or endless ridicule to endure.
The former housewife from Zhengzhou, Henan province in central China, has been driving alone across the country since September 2020, after she decided to leave an abusive marriage of 30 years. “The first half of my life has been mainly about enduring; I was a wife, a mother, and a grandmother,” Su tells TWOC. “One day, I made up my mind to live for myself.”
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Liu Yi is a contributing writer at The World of Chinese.
