Wei Wei's father, Wu Boden, is a big landlord and rice broker, and has business dealings with British rice monopoly enterprises. When Weiwei was young, her mother became a nun. She grew up with her father and aunt. My brother Guo Naiwu and my sister Tata both set up their own families, and Wei Wei 17 helped my father manage the accounts at home.
British Broder Brothers opened a rice purchasing center in Weiwei's city and sent an agent. The agent's apartment is right across from Weiwei's house. Before the arrival of the owner, the house was completely renovated and replaced with exquisite western-style equipment. It was elegant and chic, and even the servants, chefs and concierge were dressed in fashion. Vivian is envious. She guesses about the coming foreigners every day and dreams that she can live a comfortable and decent life like a foreigner. Later I heard that the agent was not a foreigner. Wei Wei is a little disappointed, but she has a strong curiosity about such a foreign-style Burmese compatriot. The agent finally arrived. His name is Wu Suohan, 20 years older than Wei Wei, with dark skin, tall figure, suit and tie, and he doesn't speak Burmese fluently.
In front of Wu Suohan, Vivian was embarrassed by her old-fashioned furniture and furnishings. She yearns for Wu Suohan's home and thinks it is another world. She began to buy new furniture, imitating the furnishings of Wu Suohan's family and the western lifestyle. Wu Suohan noticed all these changes and felt sincerely happy.
Guo is a college classmate of Wu Suohan. He participated in the patriotic student movement and still wears cloth and Burmese clothes. He was dissatisfied with Wu Suohan's indifference to students' luck and blind pursuit of Europeanized life. He runs his father-in-law's rice mill, and conflicts with foreign monopoly capital represented by Wu Suohan, so he often laughs at Wu Suohan as a "fake foreign devil" in front of his sister and opposes her combination with him. However, Wei Wei was desperate to marry Wu Suohan.
Wu Suohan is very happy that he has a young, beautiful and docile wife. He is such a person that he thinks that the "little doll" he owns should be dominated by himself. As for the heart of the "little doll", he doesn't consider it. Weiwei is willing to live according to her husband's schedule and give up Burmese customs. Wu Suohan was afraid that the "little doll" he transformed would be influenced by the outside world and restored to its original state. So he often persuades his wife to stay away from her family.
Wu Suohan despises Vivian's mother the most. In his eyes, a woman who abandoned her family to cut her hair for Nepal is simply a big violation. He is also very disgusted with Guo Naiwu who participated in the anti-British activities of the Deqin Party. The oil workers' strike and the students' strike in Myanmar contributed to the national anti-British general strike. Guo Naiwu led people from all walks of life in this city to hold support demonstrations, which was dismissed by Wu Suohan as "boring". Wu Suohan also suspected that Weiwei's father was infected with tuberculosis and asked Weiwei to have less contact with his father. Lonely Wu finally went to his eldest daughter for medical treatment in other places. Wu Bodeng is critically ill, and Wu Suohan still forbids Vivian to visit him. Vivian was heartbroken when she received the telegram of her father's death and resolutely went to attend the funeral. Wei Wei's brother-in-law is also Wu Suohan's college classmate, but he is so amiable and respected by everyone at Wei Wei's home, and Wu Suohan and her family are so out of place, which makes Wei Wei feel ashamed. She felt that her husband's "need" exceeded his "love" for her. She said, "I don't hate him", "What I hate is that I once loved him". So she and her mother went to a nun.
Just when Wei Wei was in a crisis of thought, she found herself pregnant and felt that her husband still really loved her and returned to her husband. But soon, she had a miscarriage. Vivian was dissatisfied with her stagnant life, but she didn't want to hurt her husband's heart, so she had to endure it silently. Later, she also suffered from lung disease. Wu Suohan still loves her very much and gives her the best treatment. According to the requirements of western medicine, they separated the tableware from the bedroom, which aggravated Vivian's mental pain. Wu Suohan looked down on Burmese doctors and concluded that "no Burmese doctor can cure lung disease except western medicine" and refused to let Burmese doctors see Wei Wei.
When the Pacific War broke out, the Burmese Revolutionary Army led by the Deqin Party cooperated with the Japanese to drive away the British. The British company represented by Wu Suohan went bankrupt and its cash was confiscated. Wu Suohan said to Wei Wei, "Maybe Deqin is my order!" Later, the enlightened Deqin Party planned to drive out the Japanese devils. Guo Naiwu took part in this activity and was arrested by the Japanese. Wu Suohan was afraid of being implicated and wouldn't let Vivian see her brother. Wei Wei said sadly to Wu Suohan, "You don't pity me ... and you don't love me." Since then, her condition has deteriorated. At dawn on the third day, Vivian struggled to get the diary hidden in the drawer. The diary recorded her "mental trauma" after marriage. But she fainted. She died when the western medicine gave her an injection.