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"Second wife" is a term that is absent from modern Chinese dictionaries but has become familiar in the past decade or so. It has become a growing cancer in our real society. "Secret wife" undoubtedly reminds people of men and women, money and sex transactions, especially the fate of women. Are the mistresses happy? How did they become mistresses? Why are they mistresses? Is there no other way for them to go? Should people blame men or women? How should society deal with such ugly phenomena? ... With this series of questions, the author of this article, a female journalist, changed her name and disguised herself as a down-and-out woman, and made a secret visit to the "mistress village" by the Shenzhen river. Over a period of 60 days, she revealed the heart-wrenching inside story and inner truth of mistresses' lives - in the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places, the phenomenon of "mistresses" is becoming increasingly serious.