The Favored Son's Mother Lives to Regret It

Wang Shufen, a mother who plays favorites, dotes on her second son, Zhipeng, and his wife, Xinxin, while disdaining her eldest daughter-in-law, Huijun, for giving birth to a girl. She steals from her eldest son's household to subsidize the second son, and even abandons Huijun on the verge of childbirth to go care for the second daughter-in-law. When demolition compensation for the family home comes through, she secretly sells the ancestral house and gives the entire 2.5 million to the second son for a school-district apartment, leaving the eldest son's family with nothing. After years of swallowing her grievances, Huijun finally sees her husband, Zhiming, come to his senses and refuse to let his mother move in again. Cast out by the second son's family and turned away by the third, the mother is left utterly alone and destitute.