Better Be a Woman is a love drama produced by Jiangsu Langtaosha Film Co., Ltd. and Nanjing Leading Film Culture Co., Ltd., directed by Hsuan Yang and starring Ma Yashu and Wei Du.
The play, which premiered on June 24th, 2008, tells the story of enmity between three women, Shen Guihua and Li Crystal, Shao Qun and Zhang Zhushun, who lived in 1930s.
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In the southern cities of 1930s, two women with bad karma met: one was Shen Guihua, who became a "widow" before she got married; One is Zhou Huijun, a seriously ill woman who wants to leave children for her husband's family. Hui Jun's husband Xu Chen took osmanthus as his concubine. In the meantime, the brothel woman crystal entered the Xu family to avenge her father's death, causing a fire in the Xu family. Everything in the house was destroyed by the fire, and her husband and mother-in-law were also burned to death.
After losing their husbands and children, two widows, with three children, started from scratch. During this period, they rejected the feelings of Shao Qun and Wen Zhong respectively, and saw that the world was cold and human feelings were warm and cold. But they are constantly striving for self-improvement and rebuilding the former glory of Huatai Silk Village with their own hands.