The Legendary Life of a Centenarian

Ma Sanniang is a modest, poor girl from an ordinary family. Married off by her parents’ arrangement, she is lucky enough to marry into a wealthy household. She thinks she has landed herself a rich husband and can spend the rest of her life enjoying fine food and drink, comfort, sweetness, and love…

But she never expects this to be the beginning of a hard life. Not long after the wedding, she discovers that her husband is cheating on her. To keep him in line and stop him from fooling around with other women, Ma Sanniang seeks out a master to learn medicinal arts…

She manages to keep her husband under control, but loses herself in the practice. Not only does she poison all her children to death, but her life is also beset by one upheaval after another, with twists and turns continuing until she reaches a hundred years of age…