At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, cannibalism was a rule of feudal ethics. The word "widow" was Shen Zhiyi's capital crime.
Her husband died young, and she held her infant son in her arms. She was stigmatized as a widower and suffered inhuman torture at her husband's house for five years. She suffered from cold and hunger, severe beatings, humiliation, and abuse. She was in purgatory every day and cried blood every night. The scars all over her body were the mark of her forbearance. Endless despair was the normal state of her life, just to protect her young son.
Once she was sold to a ferocious butcher by her cruel husband, she thought she would eventually fall into another abyss, but she didn't know that this rough man, full of hostility and feared by others, was the only light in her dark life.
He treated her pain to the point of bone marrow, tenderly cared for her, and healed her flesh and skin pain, but he could not cure the nightmare of convulsions that she had in her midnight dreams. When she wept and recounted the pain of five years in purgatory, he became furious and vowed to pay for her blood debt.
After several plans, several failures, and every step of the way, he finally kills the evil mother-in-law and clears away the haze of the past for her.
In troubled times, she was a widower and her life was miserable. She suffered all the hardships in the world, but finally found someone to protect her with her life. This is the struggle of blood and tears of a miserable widow under the yoke of feudalism, and it is also the affectionate redemption of a rough man's husband who devotes all his efforts.
