This is based on a real event, recreated exactly as it happened.
Yiling was abandoned by her family at sixteen and had to fend for herself. At twenty-five, her mother summoned her to Shencheng, just because she was twenty thousand yuan short of opening a dumpling shop.
While working at the shop, Yiling met a customer who came in to eat. Little did she know he was hopelessly addicted to gambling.
Her family favored sons over daughters and made endless demands. Her husband was a compulsive gambler, and they were penniless and deep in debt. Even through all that hardship, Yiling resolutely stayed with him, simply because wherever he went, he would hold her hand.
Yiling always hoped that one day the man would change for the better and walk hand in hand with her through the rest of their lives.
