Zhang Guilan favored her daughter and treated her daughter-in-law Wang Xiulan as a servant. The daughter's family regarded her as a mother, but she was starved to death in the thatched cottage after she became paralyzed. However, the filial Wang Xiulan had no one to take care of her and lacked nutrition, so she fell down and had a miscarriage. Zhang Guilan also forced her son Li Jianguo to divorce, causing Wang Xiulan to lose another child, and her son separated from her.
