The Dream of Prosperity Must Eventually End

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Huang family in Zhao Village gives birth to her third child, only for it to be another “money-losing girl.” Now she has even less standing in the village. Three daughters! Three! Born unwelcome, the little girl is given the name Huang Mengdi amid sighs, in the hope that the next baby will be a boy. Huang Mengdi is clever and beautiful from a young age, always coming first in her exams, but her parents never show her the slightest affection simply because she's a girl. At seventeen, while she's in her second year of high school and dreaming of getting into her ideal university, her parents trick her into coming home and force her to marry into a man's family for a bride price of 188,000 yuan. With her third aunt's help, she escapes... She works while continuing her studies, and changes her name to Huang Meng.