Married far from home + an ungrateful family + a wicked mother-in-law + a heroine who wakes up
Li Qinghe married far from home and spent ten years as a housewife for love. But in the end, she couldn’t even come up with the three thousand yuan needed to treat her sick daughter. When she asked her husband for money, his family took turns making things difficult for her.
Mother-in-law: “That money pit is a waste of treatment. It’d be better if she died. Hurry up and give our Zhao family a grandson. Then maybe I’ll start treating you decently.”
Sister-in-law: “You raise sons to support you in old age! If you don’t have a boy, no one will even know if you die at home someday.”
Even her husband stammered, “Girls will marry out one day anyway. How about you give me a son, and I’ll give you the three thousand? Then we’ll have someone to rely on when we’re old.”
At last, Li Qinghe sees this whole family for what they are: a pack of rotten, ungrateful wolves. She decides to divorce her husband and take her daughter away, but they do everything they can to stop her.
Her mother-in-law wails and raves:
“Your family took a thousand yuan in bride price from me ten years ago! If you want a divorce, pay me eight hundred thousand in compensation! Otherwise, I’d sooner die than let you leave my son.”
Li Qinghe: Fine. If I can’t get a divorce, then I’ll turn this whole household upside down.
In the end,
the vicious mother-in-law, the ungrateful sisters-in-law, the spineless husband...
every last one of them regrets it.
