Endless Regret

Embroidered handkerchief and old well During the Republic of China, Zheng Tong from Jinyu Village hoped to save ten yuan to marry his childhood sweetheart Liu Xiaofei. Cattle dealer Tian Yungui covets Xiao Fei and sets up a trap to frame her as unfaithful and incites pressure from the clan. In order to protect the medicine fields of Zheng Tong and Xiao Fei's family, the Zheng family took away five yuan from the Tian family (enough to buy half an acre of thin farmland), forcing Zheng Tong to draw a clear line, and he finally left his hometown in humiliation. Half a year later, the bad news came that Xiao Fei "stumbled and fell into a well". Zheng Tong vowed to take revenge and started working as a coolie at the dock. He learned that Tian Yungui was addicted to gambling and owed a huge debt to the bank. In five years, he became a gray businessman, setting up a trap to bankrupt Tian Yungui. When collecting old things to pay off debts, he found Xiao Fei's embroidered handkerchief - the corners of the handkerchief were embroidered with seeds, with the words "injustice" and "tong" hidden in them, and also had a vague shape of a well. After Tian Yungui broke down, he screamed the truth: because he suspected Xiaofei was thinking about Zheng Tong, he accidentally pushed her into the well after drinking. Zheng Tong returned to the village to find the old man, only to find out something even more cruel - Xiao Fei was abused at Tian's house and was pregnant before his death, and the child was most likely his. He burned his ill-gotten gains and lived in Xiao Fei's dilapidated house. It was snowing heavily on the night of the winter solstice. Someone saw him walking towards the abandoned well at the entrance of the village, carrying an embroidered handkerchief. The ending is a mystery, only the blood-soaked embroidered handkerchief, like a silent goldfish, tells the regrets and sins that can never be remedied in the old days.