The Abandoned Girl tells the story of a poor mountain village in the 1980s, where a family had five daughters. Desperate for a son, they abandoned their fifth daughter, leaving the newborn in a cardboard box beneath a roadside tree. Luckily, a single man adopted her. He put off settling down so he could raise the girl, earning a living with the only trade he knew. Raising her was far from easy, but in the end he helped her become a dentist. Just as she began to make a name for herself, the man was diagnosed with cancer. Not wanting to become a burden, he chose to forgo treatment. In the end, the girl’s desperate pleas persuaded him to accept it. They spent all their money, but couldn’t save him, and he died alone. After his death, her biological parents saw how successful she had become and tried to contact her through the media, using public pressure to force a reunion. Their real aim was to get this sister, whom they had never met, to pay a bride price for her younger brother. But happiness didn’t last, and fate played another cruel trick on her. She married and had a daughter, but her husband insisted she keep having children until she gave him a son. She refused, and they eventually divorced. She and her daughter depended on each other, but worse was yet to come: after the divorce, a mistake at work led to a dental accident, and a patient died during a tooth extraction. Misfortune always strikes the most vulnerable; bad luck seems to seek out those already suffering.
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