Modern girl Lin Yue accidentally traveled to the Ming Dynasty and became A Xiu, a low-income peasant girl. With her romantic imagination of ancient life and longing for counterattack, she ran headlong into the feudal quagmire that favored sons over daughters. From the time she can remember, she has been with the farmland, working in the scorching sun and cold wind with her thin body wrapped in coarse linen clothes. She watched her younger brother being held in the palm of her parents' hands, but she couldn't even hope for a full meal. When she was in her late teens, her parents used her as a commodity in exchange for betrothal gifts and forced her to marry a rough farmer from a neighboring village. She once tried to use modern knowledge to resist fate, but she repeatedly ran into obstacles in the face of strict ethics and cruel reality. After she escaped and was caught, she was beaten even more severely. Resistance was regarded as treason. The freedom and equality that she once had became an unattainable dream. Through day after day of labor, beatings, and despair, she gradually saw the tragic truth of the ancient lower-class women who were crushed by the times, and finally exhausted all their vitality under the shackles of feudal ethics.
Purpose: By traveling through the real experiences of women in the lower-class society of the Ming Dynasty, it reveals the devastation of women by bad habits such as patriarchal preference and gender oppression in the feudal era, breaks people's ideal imagination of ancient life, shows the powerlessness and misery of lower-class women under the pressure of ethics and survival, and triggers profound thinking about historical reality and gender equality.