Married in the Bamboo Grove

The first marriage in the mountain village may have been where Yang Xiaolian’s tragic life began.

At eighteen, the Miao village girl dropped out of school. Insecure and sensitive, she longed for a better material life, and step by step fell into the trap set by Huangmao, a local hoodlum.

Swept along by village gossip and the wedding drums, she stumbled into marriage. But after marrying into the Huang family, she found no happy life as she had imagined, only endless pressure to have children and exhausting farm work.

Just as she was about to accept her fate, a penniless, debt-ridden online novelist arrived in the mountains to gather material.

His long-missed understanding and kindness lit up Yang Xiaolian’s gloomy life. She thought he was a light in the darkness, but in the end, it turned out to be another scheme…