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At sixty-eight, a retired Peking University professor walks out on a fifty-year marriage — and learns what her own name sounds like.

Shu Yuting spent five decades as the soft-spoken daughter-in-law, the silent wife, the woman who always ate last. On her golden-wedding anniversary she buys herself a dress — and is told it is not appropriate. So she walks. What follows is not revenge: it is the slow, scholarly excavation of who she was before she became someone's housework.