A Life Half Bitter, Half Sweet

In the summer of the early 1990s, Chen Yulan gave birth to her beloved daughter, Li Yan. Their once-happy little family was shattered when her husband, Li Guohua, and her mother-in-law, Zhang Ying, began to resent her for having a girl. From then on, Li Guohua often cursed and beat Chen Yulan. After she lost her job, his abuse grew even worse, and he even turned his cruelty on Li Yan. Unable to take it any longer, Chen Yulan chose to divorce him. With nowhere to go after the divorce, she moved back in with her parents, bringing Li Yan with her. But their good fortune did not last: Chen Yulan’s parents died one after the other. When she met Shen Daming, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor with a disability in his legs, she thought true love had finally come and that life would get better. She had no idea that this disabled man would be the true beginning of the nightmare for her and Li Yan. Not only did he deceive Chen Yulan, but after Li Yan grew up, he took advantage of her beauty and tried to prey on her. After his attempted rape failed, Shen Daming hired people to set Li Yan up and trick her into a sham marriage, costing her her virginity…