Old Xi

On the barren and desolate Loess Plateau, time passes silently and mercilessly. In Wangjiaao, an ordinary family of three lives in a broken cave dwelling, enduring hardship and poverty, living a life of kindness, forbearance, and diligence. The honest Old Xi, warm-hearted and generous, spends half his life in integrity, only to be betrayed by human kindness; the gentle Zhaodi, toiling all her life with a heart full of grievances, endures the smoke of half a lifetime; the pure youngest daughter Maixiang, the family's only glimmer of light, dies young and is scattered into the yellow earth. They never wronged the world, yet were owed everything by time, living bitterly yet gently, and finally vanish silently, unremembered by anyone. — Description from novelcodex.org