The Light of Maternal Instinct

Although HuiYing is now married to a husband that offers a life of stability and comfort over ten years ago her first husband JiaHu fled from Shanghai to Nanyang old name for Southeast Asia to escape capture by a warlord leaving her and their toddler daughter ShaoMei behind in helpless desperation Despite the mothers emotional attachment to her absent husband she has never told the daughter about JiaHu so the daughter believes the stepfather is her biological father But the mother begins to have second thoughts about the stepfather when she sees the teen daughter zealously follow the path paved by him a path that the mother fears will lead to her daughters moral decline