recalls Chang. She was worn out and frustrated by the end of the first half-month she spent living with her mother-in-law after the marriage. This experience put an end to her original plan to quit her job in Taipei and become a full-time homemaker, and laid the seeds of animosity between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
張薇薇回憶，婚後在婆家住的那半個月讓她吃足苦頭，原本要辭掉台北工作、專心做個家庭主婦的計畫也因之叫停，婆媳間的芥蒂從此種下。