Living with My Mother-in-Law

Ye Xilei, a daughter-in-law born in the 1980s, is beautiful and clever, yet also lazy and vain. Faced with her mother-in-law, she has never managed to settle into her role as a daughter-in-law.

Fang Qiaozhen, a mother-in-law born in the 1950s, is both virtuous and hardworking, and eccentric and unpredictable. She cannot find the right balance in her role as a mother-in-law.

Xu Bin, their son born in the 1980s, wavers between his beloved wife and his devoted mother, torn between romantic and familial love. In the end, he loses the woman he loves and destroys his own marriage with his own hands.

Breaking with the usual approach to marriage and family dramas, this story neither simply attacks the mother-in-law nor takes the daughter-in-law's side. Through real-life examples, it carefully unravels the hidden reasons why conflict between a wife and her mother-in-law can lead a marriage to ruin, while showing how Xilei grows through a failed marriage.