Cracks Beneath the Fireworks

Home was something Fang Qing longed for more than anything. She lost her father when she was young, and after that, her idea of what home meant grew hazy. Carrying that longing with her, Fang Qing married Liu Hua, who was born in the countryside. She did everything she could to fit into her new family, only to face endless hardship and a life in disarray because she had not given birth to a son. They say marriage is a woman's second chance at life: marry well, and you're reborn; marry badly, and it's a tomb. Fang Qing felt that marriage was more like another abyss, one that had swallowed her whole…