Moliang, the Bride-to-Wait for Her Betrothed

In a Hakka mountain village in western Fujian during the Republic of China era, twelve-year-old Mo Niang becomes a Chen family's waiting bride. After years of bitter waiting, the husband she gets is a simpleton.

In the side courtyard, she stumbles upon the shocking secret that Chen A-Mu has been hiding the body of a dead baby and having an affair with another man...

A waiting bride lives without love or support, trapped for her entire life in a tiny household, with endless work to do and endless indignities to endure.