Chen Dongmei's Story: A Turnaround

About the story

In a rural village in the 1980s, Chen Yumei, the eldest daughter, runs away from her arranged marriage and heads south to find work. Her younger sister Chen Dongmei, who has endured mistreatment at home since childhood, is forced by their mother to marry Jiang Wenhao in her place. Expecting to fall into yet another miserable situation, Dongmei instead finds herself treated kindly by the entire Jiang family. As she and her husband share their everyday lives, affection gradually grows between them, and she finds a warm, fulfilling life of her own in the passage of ordinary days.