Xiqu

Lee Chui-hung works as a housemaid in the Hung family. Grocery owner Mangy Ox and Shu-ling, the sixth son of the Hung s, are her secret admirers, but her heart belongs to Ching Wan-man, the bookkeeper. Later, Lee, pregnant with Ching s child, is banished by Ching s mother to her maternal home, where she is forced to marry Mangy Ox by her own mother. When her son is taken seriously ill, her husband Mangy Ox, penniless and jobless, vanishes without a trace. As a result, Lee is considered a bearer of bad luck and is reduced to begging on the streets. Before long, her son dies. The unfortunate woman chances on Ching, now a prominent official, who offers to rekindle their love. Yet too ashamed of her circumstances, Lee leaves dejected.