In the era when husband was regarded as the sky, women's survival was a strange landscape. They had no desires, no thoughts and none of what women should own. Thus, they could do nothing but bear silently and burst into tears silently, till their tears were all dried up, and then spring passed. The story of *Yan Zhi Xue* is about seven such women. Beauty and struggle, conspiracy and love, as well as secrets hidden behind chastity arches, have pieced together touching dramas of joy and sorrow. Those desolate...