The Empty Chair

On the first Dragon Boat Festival after her wedding, Xiaoyun busies herself from dawn preparing a full table of dishes for her husband's family—only to find there is no seat for her at the table. Her mother-in-law brushes off the holiday gift with a one-yuan red envelope, her sister-in-law orders her around endlessly, and her husband, He Liming, keeps telling her to "just bear it" and "think of the bigger picture." It isn't until her elder sister-in-law steps forward and reveals her own similar experience in the He family years ago that everything begins to change.