Twenty years into Wen Lishu’s widowhood, her bedridden mother-in-law reveals a secret: her husband faked his death and eloped with her sister.
Even the children Lishu raised supposedly belong to that treacherous pair.
The old woman expects despair, but Lishu calmly offers another spoonful of medicine.
Her husband really is dead—and his ashes have been in his mother’s medicine all along.