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worth it
I seen this 92-93 when I was around 6 or 7 years old, and I watched it again as an adult. I thought it was very good, especially the child actress.The story begins at the FU residency, the father upsets with his son for falling in love with the maid. they were arguing. The son and the maid ran away together and got married. 1 year later, the Maid returned with a baby in hand and her husband coffin. the family was heartbroken and devastated. skip to a few years later
This story is about these two young girls, one barely 18 and a little girl that is most likely 8 or 9 years old. These girls are neighbors, Qing Qing (18 years old) and Xiao Cao, living arrangement were not the best. Qing Qing lives with her older brother and his wife while Xiao Cao is living with a foster family/ "Grandpa's family" (She calls him grandpa, but he isn't her bio grandpa). Both these family were abusive to the girls. Qing Qing has been sold off to an arrange marriage and Xiao Cao has been verbally abused and neglected. (Though, I did not think the foster father was so bad, he seemed to show some sympathy for her, it was his wife.) When Grandpa's money stop coming thats when the abuse started.
Qing Qing was stuck with this arrange marriage and Xiao Cao wanted to look for her grandpa, both girls decided on the day of the wedding, they will run away.
Qing Qing and Xiao Cao successfully ran away from her wedding by sneaking on to a carriage which there was also a man, Shih Wei, hiding because he was trying to escape an arrange marriage as well. The man gives carriage driver money for the ride.
Xiao Cao tells him about her situation and that she wants to find her grandpa, the three of them start traveling together to reach the FU residency where Xiao Cao grandpa works. The servants says her grandpa was kicked out because he was stealing money from the Fu family. Xiao Cao was heart broken and did not believe them, she ran into the house calling for her Grandpa.
Madam Fu walks came out because of all the commotions, blind, (because she cried so much she went blind) . She hears the voice of the man, she mistaken Shih Wei for her son that died at the beginning of the episode.
They ended up staying at the Fu Residency for a while for Madam FU's sake. The Fu Patriarch not happy about it but ended up allowing it to happen. The three of them were allowed to stay at the Fu residency temporarily while they track down Xiao Cao's grandpa. Xiao Cao begins to warm everybody's heart. Everyone in the FU family started to care for her and love her like she was their granddaughter. The Fu Patriarch wasn't so angry anymore.
Shih Wei and Qing Qing started getting a long, and they started liking each other, Shih Wei's finance came by, there was some conflict there.
The Fu family neighbor had two brothers next door, an older brother around the same age as Shih Wei and Qing Qing and the younger brother same age as Xiao Cao. They all became friends. and they traveled somewhere together.
Xiao cao and neighbor boy started going to school together.
She got hit by a car and was seriously hurt. It was a hit and run. Xiao cao recovers 5-6 episodes later.
Xiao Cao's Grandpa came back. Xiao Cao's Grandpa, felt guilty all these years and started crying and spilling the truth. He confessed that Xiao Cao is actually the Fu family grand daughter and that she is in fact, their son's and the maid's daughter and the reason for all the missing money was paying to support Xiao Cao all those years. Fu family shocked more crying. Xiao Cao was happy to reunite with grandpa.
Everyone knew the truth except Xiao Cao. When Xiao Cao finally learns the truth, she asked where her mother is and what had happened to her. Xiao Cao was brought to see her mother. Her mother was filled with so much grief when her husband died, she lost her mind, (Postpartum depression, Grief) she was trying to harm herself and there were times where she was trying to harm Xiao Cao. Xiao Cao's maternal grandma, gave Xiao cao to the servant (Xiao Cao grandpa). Xiao Cao hearing this and learning the truth about what happened to her parents was upset with the Fu family. She stays mad at them for a while.
Xiao Cao's mom started showing improvement. Qing Qing and Shih wei lectured Xiao Cao about forgiveness. Xiao Cao finds her grandparents at her father's grave to tell them, she loves them and she forgives them.
and they all live happily ever after.
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