This is a story about marriage, family and self-redemption.
Yuan Yi'an, an ordinary girl from a big city, married the gentle and reserved Wu Xuwei with the longing for love. However, on the second day of their wedding, her mother-in-law Li Xiaolian gave her an unforgettable insult - in full view of everyone, she sternly reprimanded her for not knowing the rules. At that moment, Yuan Yian realized that marriage was not only the union of two people, but also the collision of two families, and she was destined to learn to survive in this silent war.
Mother-in-law Li Xiaolian, a strong and stubborn rural woman, controls the entire family in her own way. She set countless rules: when eating, you must serve food to your elders first, you can only wear red clothes during the New Year, and even interfered with Yuan Yian's education methods. Every resistance was met with more intense suppression. The husband, Wu Xuwei, has a soft personality and is accustomed to being silent. He is torn between his mother and his wife.
From the humiliation of newlyweds, to the control during pregnancy, to the conflicts during childcare, Yuan Yian was pushed to the edge of collapse step by step. She had tried to escape, cried bitterly late at night, and even thought about divorce. But for the sake of her children, she chose to be patient again and again. It was not until many years later, when his son suffered from anxiety due to the long-term suppressed family atmosphere, and when his father-in-law told Yuan Yian that he had asked her to help her mother-in-law suffer from heart failure before he passed away... That Yi'an finally understood that true reconciliation is not to admit defeat, but to learn to find his own dignity and strength in a scarred life.
"Ordinary Home" depicts the most common conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, husband-wife and husband-in-law in Chinese-style families with delicate and realistic writing.
Very interesting novel