Fifty-Five Letters My Daughter Never Read — 55 Ep

The mother-in-law came on a Tuesday with a folder and a stack of bills. The folder said the flat belonged to the Zhou family. The bills, counted twice, were one hundred thousand in cash, described as nutrition money, with a line at the bottom asking her to sign and move out within seven days. Gu Nian counted the money, put it back in the envelope, wrote the date on the flap, and did not open it again for seven years. Then a summons arrived, and a lawyer stood up in court and said she had taken Zhou family money and lived on it. The wedding was on a Sunday and the flight was on a Monday. Zhou Yan said three years abroad, a house in his mother's name for safekeeping, and a stack of cash on the kitchen table as nutrition money. Gu Nian did not open the envelope. She put it in the wardrobe and started writing letters instead, one for every year her daughter would need to hear the truth. Seven years later Zhou Yan came home with a new wife, a custody claim, and a lawyer who called her an unstable single mother with no income. Fifty-five episodes about a woman who sewed hems at night, a mother-in-law who testified about money she had handed over herself, and fifty-five letters a judge read aloud in a family court. Watch free on Palmbox.