People say the bitterest thing in the world is the coptis root, but Zhou Kaida's life was even more bitter.
His father died when he was young. To survive, his mother took him with her when she remarried, but his stepfather treated him like a weed. At last, after his mother had suffered and died, his stepfather threw him out...
Read about the bitter life of Zhou Kaida, a poor boy beset by hardship.