Broken Swallows tells the story of the hardship-filled coming of age and rise of the orphan Zong Yan. Abandoned by her parents as a child, she relied on her grandmother. Later, her parents mistreated and exploited her, and she endured hunger, cold, bullying, and a life spent drifting from place to place, tasting every kind of suffering.
Fortunately, she never bowed to fate. With unyielding grit, she fought to survive, found her true love, Zhou Cheng, at work, built a happy family, and broke free from the bonds of her birth family. From a lone swallow battered by storms to a happy woman with a peaceful home of her own, Zong Yan finally came through hardship into happiness and became her own light.
