Character Intro

Yanni as Liu JingLi✨️

The epitome of a mother born in the 1960s, Jingli was a beautiful woman who married young at the age of 19 in her hometown. Due to genetic compatibility issues, she gave birth to a child who came every night. Unable to avoid arguments, she moved to the county town with her husband and became a full-time housewife. Over a decade later, her brilliance and passion faded, and she struggled with the daily necessities of life, enduring her husband's fatigue and incompetence, hoping for nothing more than the safety of her children.

In 2003, her daughter Zhou Yi died suddenly after taking the college entrance examination. The death was classified as suicide by the employer, which completely ruined Bao Li's already unbearable life. After being abandoned by her husband in every possible way, she attempted suicide with her stupid son Lei Zhou, and remarried her savior Jia Bing, using time to heal her silent pain.

In 2008, seven years after Zhou Yi's death, Jingli was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer. She also unexpectedly discovered her daughter had committed suicide, triggering a wave of grief. Deciding to embark on a final journey of her life, she took her sisters with her to uncover the truth behind Zhou Yi's death. Unexpectedly, she was repeatedly overwhelmed by the truth and reality that unfolded. She came to understand her "devilish" daughter and re-examined her own absurd life. Finally, with the help of her sisters and relatives, she released her irreversible obsession, faced her fate with equanimity, and used her remaining energy to prepare for her own death. This is her life.

Ren Xu Xi as Xiaofeng✨️

Northeastern hot peppers, as their name suggests, explode at the touch of a finger.

At the age of eighteen, Xu Xiaofeng was personally saddled with the factory director by her parents. Later, she was forced to run a hair salon that everyone knew was illegal. Years later, she was "redeemed" by an old patron and married. She thought she had made a new life, but unexpectedly, she was plunged into a new tragedy.

Her husband is an alcoholic and abusive woman who doesn't give Xiaofeng any dignity. Her son becomes even more indifferent and rejects her when he learns about her past identity from his classmates. Xiaofeng knows very well that "home" is not a comfortable place for her, but she is bound by the feudal ideas of that era and never talks about divorce.

Perhaps it is the inner repression that creates a sharp contrast between Xiaofeng's appearance. She is agile, bold, romantic, free and easy, and dares to love and hate. This is the Xu Xiaofeng that others see as she has not been fully explored.

When her old friend Jingli embarks on a quest for revenge, Xiaofeng joins her without hesitation, motivated by both sisterly loyalty and a desire to escape reality. As she follows Jingli on her quest, Xiaofeng gradually understands the complexities of human nature and the frustrations of life. With her sister's encouragement, she learns from her mistakes and bravely chooses to file for divorce, relinquishing custody of her son, and begins a new and vibrant life with police officer Lao Ma.

Xu Rouhan as Zhouyi✨️

Jingli's daughter was stabbed to death at the county fertilizer plant in 2003. After investigation, the police determined that it was suicide.

Zhou Yi was exceptionally beautiful, but tragically born lame. She placed all the blame on her family. Her parents, ignorant enough to give birth to a son with intellectual disabilities, experimented with a second child. This, she believed, was the beginning of the tragedy.

Zhou Yi has a beautiful face and a proud personality, always dreaming of a dazzling life, while Jing Li has been giving her disabled daughter a long-term repressive education, advising her to recognize herself, be down-to-earth and stable, and return to an ordinary life. This is undoubtedly the source of Zhou Yi's extreme rebelliousness and sensitivity in her later years.

Zhou Yi hates her family of origin and despises her parents' miserable relationship, yet she chooses a revengeful way of life, akin to a dual personality. At home, Zhou Yi is sensible and obedient, never talking back, but outside, she is cruel and ruthless.

Without Jing Li knowing anything, Zhou Yi bullied classmates, hooked up with rich second-generations, deliberately missed the college entrance examination in order to go abroad, and even faked a pregnancy to commit fraud. In order to get a job as a captain in an airline, dhe made everyone around her miserable. Finally, when she got involved in a fraud gang that was out of control and intended to kill people, she accidentally pushed himself into the abyss of death.

Ooh wow, every character’s got such a background story... I saw some of this about ZY and LSB, but not the others ... are these from Weibo fans or the novel? Now I really wanna know what happened with ZY. Her past makes it seem like it could be a murder case… esp with how her life was entangled with some ppl...or with LSB possibly involved...