Wife of the main house

Author: Li Fu
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The matriarch of a grand mansion, a tragic life under fate. This is a story of the rise and fall of a wealthy family, and also a tragic tale of a woman's destiny. The Beijing girl Yang Yuzhu, who sold herself to bury her father, was bought back by the Guandong Liu family, a noble and wealthy merchant family, to serve as a maid. From then on, she grew up in the complex and turbulent Liu family mansion, in the stormy Guandong city, and amidst the entanglements of love and hatred in a time of national chaos. She gradually became the head of the main house, helping the declining Liu family survive in the turmoil. However, the turmoil of the times and the struggles within the family made her taste all the bitterness and beauty of life. The ordinary woman, kind and beautiful, finally walked through her extraordinary life of great joy and sorrow, great suffering and hardship. As the mournful drums played for her funeral, the last feudal emperor of Chinese history abdicated. Was it fate? Or was it just a coincidence?