The 1960s: Ten Sisters, Nine Starved to Death, and I Was the Only One Left

[Period Drama + Rural Life + Everyday Family Affairs + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Based on a True Story]

Winter in Chengjia Village in 1960 was cold enough to freeze a person to death. The Cheng family's tenth daughter, Cheng Xiulan, came wailing into the world. In a famine year when people couldn't even get enough to eat, the midwife sighed, "Another useless girl."

All ten sisters died one after another amid famine and disease. In the end, she was the only one who survived. With no parents to protect her and no siblings to stand up for her, Cheng Xiulan learned from childhood that she had to make her own way in life.

She made a place for herself in the village through hard work and became a substitute teacher. Later, she married Zhao Jianguo, a demobilized soldier, and thought her days of hardship were over. She never imagined that another abyss was about to open before her.

Her mother-in-law looked down on her for giving birth to girls. Her husband, misled by a fellow soldier into taking on a million-yuan debt, changed completely. Desperate to have a son, she had no choice but to send her daughters away one by one.

Only her eldest daughter remained by her side, helping her endure the days when debt collectors came to the door. But in the end, her husband changed his heart, and the daughters she'd sent away grew resentful and never returned. She was left with no family around her.

She suffered every hardship in life, and her entire existence was defined by living for others. Yet she never got the family reunion she longed for...