Fifty years ago, just after Qiao Xiaoling came of age, she was married by her parents into the wealthiest Village Chief's family in the neighboring Mei Village as a daughter-in-law. She thought that she had escaped her birth family, which favored sons over daughters, and could start living a good life. However, she never expected that she was married off just to ward off bad luck.
Her new husband had been unconscious from being hit on the head with a stone. To offset the bad luck, they had spent thirty taels as a 'betrothal gift' to buy her as a wife, but within three days, she became a widow of pure character.
