Struggling in the Sea of My Heart

The Struggle Within is a tragic love story. Yang Liufan, the heroine, and Huang Dahai, the hero, turn their marriage into a slaughterhouse without bloodshed. Amid a battle of suspicion and sincerity, they let a third party intrude and allow the slanderers’ spittle to drown out loyalty and destroy kindness. The heroine smothers her discontent with the marriage beneath a haze of gray, leaving the hero, a man adopted by her mother, to raise a son who, like him, has no idea of his birth family. Without realizing it, the third party, Wu Tong, falls in love with the wounded hero. Under the pressure of slander, she leaves for another part of the country. In the end, when the hero reaches the end of his life, she braves the pressure and returns to comfort him. But by then, his slow-motion suicide of a marriage with the heroine has drained the last drop of blood from him, and he dies in agony. Though the heroine finally comes to her senses amid the hero’s struggle, it is too late. The son she had with another man abandons her, leaving her with a tragic life.