Destiny in Her Hands (2011)

This is a story about a lady who was born with broken lines on both her palms. It seems according to Chinese cultural beliefs if a person is born with broken lines on his/her palms, especially if the person is a female, she would face a life of extreme hardship and bad luck. The story begins with the main character Luo Jin Yu was born to a fried mee hoon seller mother and a gambling addict father. She was born backstage of a Cantonese opera travelling troupe that was coincidentally in town for a performance. Jin Yu's mother was devastated to find out her firstborn daughter was born with broken lines on both of her palms. She had wanted to abandon Jin Yu, but an opera performer who found her backstage had advised her to bring up her daughter instead as best as she could. Life proved to be an incredibly long and hard journey for Jin Yu as she experienced indescribable hardships and challenges in life right into her adult life. Adding more misery to her life were the births of her three younger brothers and one younger sister, where her mother favoured them over her as the eldest child in the family. Jin Yu was denied the basic right to education. Although she was an above-average conscientious student, she had to stop schooling and was forced to work in a factory at the age of 15 to support her family due to severe poverty. After she married a colleague working at the same factory, she later discovered that she had a talent for writing and she decided to venture into it to earn extra income to support herself and her family. However, her husband was never supportive of her ventures to keep their family financially afloat. Jin Yu's husband was a womaniser and also hot-tempered and abusive towards her and their children, a mentally-challenged son and a daughter, which led Jin Yu to become independent to achieve her ambition to be a famous scriptwriter and the best possible wife and mother to her husband children. However, there was a time that Jin Yu even contemplated suicide because she believed the broken lines on both of her palms meant that she was destined to fail in her life. A prolific journalist Pan Li Hua, who later became her best friend, advised her that her life was still worth living and that suicide would not solve the problems she was facing in life. Jin Yu then decided from then on to be in control of the direction her life would take but not at the expense of her family and ambition. She finally managed to take control of the destiny of her life, but not without facing some of the most horrendous challenges life has imposed on her. Jin Yu's story ends as how it began, i.e. at a Cantonese opera travelling troupe stage, but this time she was married to a man as her second husband, who shared her passion for script writing and performing in the Cantonese opera. Edit Translation

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