Ye Youyou’s birth mother dies the moment she is born.
Her father marries his childhood sweetheart, and they have twins, a boy and a girl.
From then on, Ye Youyou is a child with no mother and a father who doesn’t love her.
When she is one, the grandmother who dotes on her also passes away, and her stepmother forces her to quit school.
Barely eighteen, she is forced by her stepmother to marry an older widower.
Unable to bear it, Ye Youyou throws herself into a river.
After she is rescued, Ye Youyou agrees to take her stepsister’s place and marry a lame military officer.
He can’t perform anyway, so she figures it doesn’t matter.
Ye Youyou prepares herself for a marriage in name only.
She never expects to end up worn out every day, with an aching back and sore waist.
It ended before I even finished writing it.