In the famine-stricken 1960s, a widow discovers she’s pregnant with her late husband’s child just one month after he dies!
Branded a curse on her husbands, tormented by a vicious mother-in-law, and so poor she can barely feed herself, Lin Xiuzhi kneels in the snow with her four-year-old daughter. Her whole world has collapsed!
To survive, she tearfully leaves her daughter behind and remarries. On her wedding night, she confesses that she’s pregnant. She expects to be thrown out, but the honest, simple team leader’s eyes turn red. “Have the baby! I’ll raise it!”
She thinks her hardships are finally over and enjoys three peaceful years, only for her husband to die in another tragic accident!
Two husbands dead, and now she’s the village’s most cursed woman! Her brother-in-law seizes her house and land, her sisters-in-law spread rumors and scheme against her, the production team forces her into grueling labor, and even strangers spit at her!
Looking at the four hungry children who depend on her, her late husband’s posthumous child, her daughter with her new husband, the eldest girl tormented into begging by her cruel mother-in-law, and the stepdaughter her husband left behind, Lin Xiuzhi wipes away her tears and grips a cleaver, her eyes blazing:
“If I’m not ruthless, how are my children supposed to survive?”
From then on, a fearless, fiery mother makes a name for herself across the surrounding villages!
She takes on cruel mothers-in-law, beats up layabouts, tears apart the mouths spreading rumors, and stands up to her land-grabbing brother-in-law. Whoever lays a hand on her children, she’ll destroy their whole family!
Famine won’t starve her, and chaos won’t break her. With a hoe, she raises four children; with her fierce spirit, she protects them for life!
Everyone pities her as a miserable widow, but she’s determined to carve out a way to survive in the famine years, with all four children by her side!
I remembered many past events.