♛ Period drama + building wealth + family squabbles + women's growth + special abilities + doting husband ♛
In 1977, deep in the mountains of Guizhou, Huang Juanjuan, the prettiest girl in Huangniu Village, had waited eight years for her childhood sweetheart, only to see him marry someone else.
On his wedding day, she put on the red wedding dress she'd spent six months sewing and went to disrupt the ceremony. She was slapped twice.
A month later, she went mad.
She stripped naked and climbed a century-old camphor tree, sang bawdy mountain songs, defecated outside her unfaithful lover's home, and set the mountains on fire. Everyone in the village called her a madwoman.
No one knew what she saw when she was mad.
Even fewer knew that her own father and eldest brother sold her to Fujian for 700 yuan.
When she came to her senses, she was in an unfamiliar mountain village a thousand miles away, married to an honest, simple man ten years her senior.
She bore him two sons, and her madness came and went.
Then one day, she cracked her head and lay unconscious for three days. When she woke, she discovered she could see people's internal organs and predict what would happen within the next month.
The villagers said she was Mazu reincarnated.
Some called her a madwoman; others called her a god.
Only she knew she was a woman whom fate had crushed and pieced back together.
From the mountains of Guizhou to the coast of Fujian, from madwoman to “Mazu,” she spent her life writing an epic of a woman.
And yet, at sixty, she died for no apparent reason.
She had tasted all eight worldly sufferings.
This is the story of a woman, and of an era.
Self-proclaimed 😄