Difficult Family Affairs

This film (drama)Also known as家经难念，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2005Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating7.7(For reference only)。

The Yang family has many daughters and no sons. The elderly mother, Xi Yuelan, often laments her unfortunate fate, as none of her four daughters bring her peace or satisfaction. The eldest daughter, Yang Liying, is both beautiful and talented. After graduating from university, she stayed on to teach, bringing prestige to the Yang family. Unbelievably, Yang Liying foolishly married Feng Gang, who worked as a handyman in a small hospital, and just a few days after their marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Yang Xiaoxuan. Due to an unhappy marriage, she left for the United States and was gone for eight years with no intention of returning, leaving Xi Yuelan with only distant longing. The second daughter, Yang Likun, married a police captain but insisted on being child-free. Despite Xi Yuelan's best efforts, she couldn't change their minds. The third daughter, Yang Liping, is a constant worry for Xi Yuelan; at thirty, she refuses to date. Whenever anyone brings it up, she either falls silent or becomes angry. To appease her mother, she even employed a painter to pose as her boyfriend. The fourth daughter, Yang Sigai, is twenty-eight and has a troublesome boyfriend who often gets into fights. He not only disrespects Yang Sigai but also physically abuses her. When Yang Sigai proposed breaking up, he showed up on her grandmother's birthday to cause a scene, demanding a two-thousand-yuan breakup fee, which nearly gave Xi Yuelan a heart attack. Fortunately, the son-in-law, Feng Gang, handles various matters, both inside and outside the family, taking on all heavy and dirty work alone. Honest and forthright, Feng Gang never complains and works diligently without any negligence. However, for over a decade, he has been looked down upon by his mother-in-law, Xi Yuelan, who suspects he used underhanded tactics to win her eldest daughter. No matter how hard Feng Gang tries, he cannot gain Xi Yuelan's respect. In her eyes, Feng Gang is nothing more than a rogue. Since becoming the Yang family's son-in-law, he has become a thorn in Xi Yuelan’s side, thinking her daughter is a beautiful flower wasted on a pile of dung. This lingered on Xi Yuelan's mind, and her first act of revenge was to name her granddaughter Yang Xiaoxuan instead of Feng Xiaoxuan. As for why Feng Gang was able to marry Yang Liying and why Yang Liying willingly married someone of such lesser means, neither Yang Liying nor Feng Gang ever spoke about it, remaining a mystery to the Yang family. No one expected Feng Gang would really act like a “rogue” after all. He was publicly accused by a female student, Liu Fang, who identified him on the street, leading to his being taken to the police station by Liu's mother and daughter. Liu Fang, in tears, firmly claimed Feng Gang tried to rape her. Unable to defend himself, Feng Gang found it hard to prove his innocence. To clear his name, he asked Liu Fang to identify him again, but she was unwilling to revisit that horrific night and became very unstable, refusing to testify again. Desperate and with no other options, he lost his job due to the uproar and had to become a masseur at a bathhouse. This incident caused a huge uproar in the Yang family. Xi Yuelan was furious, lamenting and scolding Feng Gang for being shameless. Feng Gang’s attempts to explain fell flat under the puzzled gazes of the family. Only Yang Xiaoxuan firmly believed her father was innocent and was determined to help him clarify the facts. Xi Yuelan, already distressed, suddenly learned that her second daughter Yang Likun got into trouble again. With her "enthusiastic" help, her cousin had been scammed out of two hundred thousand yuan in public funds. As the son-in-law who was a police captain, he was expected to be promoted to deputy director but lost the opportunity due to mistakes made while trying to recover the lost funds. Xi Yuelan later discovered that Yang Likun's refusal to have children was not a choice for being child-free but because she was unable to conceive due to illness. To appease Xi Yuelan, the third daughter, Yang Liping, found a fake boyfriend to deceive her, truly baffling the elderly woman! The fourth daughter, Yang Sigai, was detained by the police for alleged murder due to someone else's accusation. Surprisingly to Xi Yuelan, her eldest daughter Yang Liying had divorced Feng Gang at some point. By chance, Xi Yuelan discovered that her fourth daughter Yang Sigai was secretly involved with her divorced brother-in-law Feng Gang. Unbeknownst to her, the whole family knew about it while she remained in the dark. Faced with a series of family changes, Xi Yuelan truly felt overwhelmed; she didn't know how to continue living or what the meaning of life was, nor how to resolve the difficulties and disasters that had befallen her family. In despair, Xi Yuelan felt lost. At this moment, the eldest daughter Yang Liying quietly returned from the United States. After eight years of separation, what awaited was a heart-wrenching farewell. Stricken with a terminal illness, Yang Liying briefly reunited with her family before moving into a hospital, having already purchased her burial plot, dying alone on the hospital bed. Faced with her eldest daughter’s corpse, Xi Yuelan was utterly heartbroken, with tears streaming down her face. Life must go on, and there will still be sunlight in daily life. With Yang Xiaoxuan’s help, the truth about Feng Gang's accusation of raping a female student finally came to light. It turned out that Liu Fang suffered from schizophrenia, her claim against Feng Gang being completely fabricated. Feng Gang finally cleared his name but at a great cost. The two hundred thousand yuan lost by the second daughter was also recovered. The third daughter, Yang Liping, got married for real to the fake boyfriend, while Yang Sigai was exonerated in the murder case and unexpectedly became Feng Gang's bride, with Yang Xiaoxuan playing matchmaker; life in the Yang family gradually became smoother. Yang Xiaoxuan also received an acceptance letter from a prestigious university. Time passed quickly, and the elderly mother Xi Yuelan finally understood that life consists of overcoming various obstacles. Without these challenges, life would have no meaning. Ordinary people's lives are colorful and diverse, and it is precisely this diversity that creates the prosperity and excitement of the city. Every family in the world faces countless difficulties and challenges, and mothers everywhere toil for their children's futures without complaint. There is no fire mountain that cannot be crossed in this world. No matter what, we must move forward; hardships are nothing, and as long as we are alive, there is hope. The show adopts a common people's perspective, delving into the lives of city dwellers and illustrating the essence of life. It presents the everyday joys and sorrows of common people while revealing intricate emotions and relationships, intertwined with real and compelling suspenseful cases, making the narrative fiery and intense, full of suspense and dramatic peaks, leaving viewers deep in thought.