Adopting a localized narrative perspective and centering on a female return-to-hometown storyline, the TV series To the Wonder presents the construction of female subjectivity in border regions amidst the interplay of tradition and modernity. This is achieved through the portrayal of multiple female characters such as Li Wenxiu, Zhang Fengxia, and Tuo Ken across three dimensions: body, discourse, and mutual aid. At the bodily level, women treat the body as a field of practice, embodying labor to challenge the traditional gendered division of labor that overlooks its value, while using bodily expressions of emotion and desire to break free from the constraints of gender discipline, thereby laying the foundation for the emergence of subjectivity. On the discourse level, women expand narrative space through discourse contention and writing practices, resisting patriarchal discourse in everyday speech and transforming private experience into public discourse through literary writing, thus shifting from being the “written object” to becoming the “writing subject”. In terms of mutual aid, women rely on support networks to build social foundations for subjectivity, forming emotional and survival bonds through vertical inter-generational family assistance and overcoming cultural boundaries through horizontal cross-ethnic solidarity, thereby creating a social network that facilitates the formation of subjectivity.