I Gave My Brother a Wife

Era + Countryside + Short-lived parents + Going south to work When she was 20 years old, her parents used her as a bargaining chip to marry a man who was 9 years older than her... The elder brother wants to marry a daughter-in-law, but the other party does not want a bride price, but only asks for his younger sister to be married off. The parents felt sorry for their son who was looking for life and death, and pushed their daughter into the fire pit with their own hands. After five years of marriage, the man's fists and bottles never stopped. The day she gave birth to her daughter, the man took one look at her and without saying a word, left her and the baby in the hospital and left. From then on, the child became a bargaining chip for the man to control her. In the middle of the night, the man's fists and the child's cries were intertwined. She gradually became numb and her heart was filled with despair. She had never stepped into the front door of her natal family again in five years. I thought this would be it for the rest of my life, until my cousin who was working in the city came and asked right away: "You are only in your twenties, are you going to die in this dry well?" With the help of her cousin, she clung to a glimmer of hope and boarded the green train heading south. In a strange southern city, in a crowded rental house, she met a group of women with the same problem: those who escaped from marriage, those who were abandoned, those who fled with their children, and those who had failed marriages. They struggle to make a living at the bottom, earn a living with their massage hands, keep each other warm and support each other in the wind and rain...