Hu Nier has lived for 40 years, always trapped in the shackles of her original family.
As the eldest son in the family, my father worked hard for his brothers and sisters all his life, remained silent and forbearing, and eventually became addicted to tobacco and alcohol, was stricken by cancer, and died in depression. Her parents' marriage was in ruins, and the family was full of quarrels and depression all year round. However, her grandmother, Duan Yunyan, was kind and gentle in front of her, but always made things difficult for her mother behind her back. Her hypocrisy and meanness became a lingering shadow in her childhood.
The mother was originally a poor person with no blood relatives to rely on. She was the child of her grandmother's second marriage. Her grandmother was once the eldest daughter of Buzhuang, but she was turned into a child bride in trouble and spent half her life in exile. My mother married into the Hu family and had no support from her natal family. She had no choice but to tolerate her grandmother's difficulties and live a humble and aggrieved life.
Until an accident happened, Hu Nier traveled back to the Republic of China and stepped into those dusty years.
She saw with her own eyes that the young Duan Yunyan was the eldest daughter of the Duan clan leader in ancient Taiyuan County. She was a pampered young lady from an aristocratic family in Flagstaff Courtyard. She was full of dignity and pride, but she could not escape the fate of family marriage and was forced to marry into the Hu family's main courtyard in Dongguan.
From a young lady from a noble family in the clouds to a rural housewife, the unwillingness and grievance caused by the gap in family status, coupled with the helplessness of the times, completely changed her life.
The entanglement between the Hu family and the Duan family, the fateful entanglement between the two generations of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the unspeakable difficulties of the eldest son, and the intertwined fate of three generations are all unfolding before Hu Nier's eyes.
It turns out that all the harshness and forbearance, depression and pain have their traces.
This search for roots across time and space is about exploring the secrets of the family's past, untying a half-life knot, and a complete reconciliation with the family of origin and past regrets.
Under the family status, everything is fate; above the dust, there is finally relief.
Purpose: Searching for roots across time and space is to explore the secrets of the family's past, to untie the knot of half a lifetime, and to completely reconcile with the original family and past regrets.