old days

Late at night, Wu Ximei recalled the past in Baorong Village, Namyang Province.Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried and took her younger brother away, leaving her alone with only her grandmother to protect her.In 1996, when she was sixteen, she fell in love with Fu Chang, a deaf-mute boy, but was forcibly separated by her second uncle's family in order to collect a bride price for her son.They forced Wu Ximei to marry the older and irascible Guo Adi.After getting married, she never became pregnant and was beaten by her husband all day long.

Before her death, her grandmother taught her that "suffering a loss is a blessing", and she relied on this sentence to endure it.One night, Adi Guo let her cousin rape her in order to carry on the family line.She looked at her snoring husband, her eyes turning from fear to coldness, and finally picked up a kitchen knife and killed him.She wanted to bury the body on the spot, but when she pried off the floor tiles, she suddenly discovered the skull of her ex-wife who had been domestically abused by Guo Adi. She was disgusted and angry, and she raised her knife to chop Guo Adi's body again and again.

Later, she ran away from home, and before leaving, she retaliated by setting fire to the new house that her second uncle had prepared for her son, as if burning her old life.In reality, when faced with Meng Chao's questioning, she simply said that Guo Adi treated her very well, but disappeared after going to sea with her cousin.

In 1998, she went to Jialin City alone to make a living. She originally wanted to be a nanny, but was tricked by a woman recruiter into working as a shampoo girl in a shampoo shop.As she lay down to rest, she dreamed of a free self, heading toward a bright future.Suddenly, another woman washing her hair woke her up and helped her dress up.The boss, Brother Dao, asked her to wash her hair, but because of nervousness, she made a mistake and soaked Brother Dao with water.