A girl born and raised in the countryside, the only daughter in three generations of the Lin family, was treasured by her parents and brothers. But after marrying into a family far from home, she was targeted not only by her mother-in-law, but treated like dirt by her husband too. After enduring it for twenty years, she no longer considers them family. She has to learn to protect herself. She doesn’t care if others call her unfilial or a bad wife: she has to make herself strong and fight back. She won’t let them walk all over her, no matter how old her mother-in-law is, and even if she really was born to repay her father’s debts by marrying into the Wu family. Twenty years of humiliation have long since paid off that debt. Besides, the Lin family owes the Wu family nothing.
Poem: “Daughter in Tears”: In a village in the northern lands of Min, the Lin family’s line gained a daughter. On the auspicious day of my birth, my ancestors sent me blessings, and my father gave me to the world as a moonlit soul.
