Murder of a Family

Xu Jialing's boyhood was a long period of suffering when she was trapped in a small, isolated county town. Her mother devoted all her paranoid and morbid desires for her father to her daughter. Jealousy, insults, and meanness filled her entire teenage years. Finally, at the age of twenty-four, she broke away from her hometown and escaped from that home. But what she escaped was only the physical prison, and the mental shackles never dissipated from her body. Everything in the past was like a gangrene attached to the bones, and the shadow cast by her mother still lingered in every crevice of her life. Others said that everything was over and life could start again, and they advised her to reconcile. But Xu Jialing knew in her heart that her healthy, young self had already died of an invisible murder. This is not a happy revenge story. There is no salvation from heaven, no hearty counterattack. It is a girl who, in the long mental aftershocks, identifies her wounds, struggles to survive, and learns to confront and coexist with her broken self. On top of the ruins, he was trying to figure out a way to survive bit by bit.