It is a fate that has been marked by many unexpected turns. When Chang-mei first set foot in the Ku household, she was a 20-year-old girl going to work in the home of one of the most prominent Hakka families in the Meinung-Chishan area.
認命，的確，三十五年前張長妹嫁入古家時，古家可是高雄縣美濃、旗山一帶人人稱羨的客家望族。當年雙十年華的張長妹，就是到古家做女工時，意外被古家二少爺看中。