Skilled tailoring artisan Xu Fen devoted her family wholeheartedly for decades after marriage, subsidizing all her income to the household, dedicating herself wholeheartedly yet suffering harsh treatment from her in-laws. Just for buying herself a lipstick she encountered her husband's humiliation, Xu Fen suddenly waking up resolutely divorced. Relying on her traditional qipao craftsmanship, she gained recognition from numerous clients, and with others' assistance utilized the law to dissolve the marriage relationship. Xu Fen reorganized her career, reopened her tailor shop, appeared at the intangible cultural heritage qipao exhibition, inherited traditional clothing skills, realized self-worth by relying on hardworking hands, interpreted women's independence and self-reliance, and guarded the family-country sentiments of traditional folk culture.