Ji Xiaofen is a migrant girl who went to work in the city. She was forced to marry a city man. The strong cultural and urban-rural differences made Ji Xiaofen live in a family of cold violence. Her husband's betrayal, her mother-in-law's ruthlessness, and social discrimination made her finally one day choose to break out in silence and prepare to kill her husband! Declare war on the world.
Two carefully designed murders, and a phoenix's baptism from ashes. Let us witness the difficult survival process of small people in big cities, and feel the complex human nature reflected in their love and betrayal, money and desire.
Human nature, essentially good? Or inherently evil? The gap between urban and rural areas, the gap between rich and poor, how to bridge this gap?
How will Ji Xiaofen, the Chinese version of "Desperate Housewives" who is struggling in the prison of marriage, get out of the "death trap" she has woven by herself?
Reader comments
It's okay and almost suspenseful, but the male and female protagonists are quite easy to relate to.
It's okay and almost suspenseful, but the male and female protagonists are quite easy to relate to.
Very well written and socially authentic