The Republic of China and Shanghai, two words that can create countless stories
Destiny's choice
She chose to escape from her poor family and marry into a wealthy family who had fled from the north as the master's third concubine. She had already accepted her fate, but she did not want to jump into a wheel of fate and began to struggle in the whirlpool of the times.
The filth in the high-walled compound
The sinister and evil master, the chronically ill eldest wife, the second wife who chants Buddhist scriptures all the year round, the young lady who is infatuated with the storyteller, the eldest young master who has an affair with the maid, the second young master who is in love with his aunt...
Life or death in a chaotic family?
Struggle or sink?