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chī juéhù · 'eating the household with no heir': seizing a family's property after its last man dies
Chi juehu means 'eating the household with no heir'. A juehu is a family line with no male heir, and the phrase describes relatives or outsiders taking over its property, often a daughter's inheritance, because custom favoured sons. It describes a trap as much as a theft, and it has become a way of talking about gendered inheritance. The Vanishing Beauty presents its marriage as a trap with this name.
Dramas
Where it comes up
Neon & Nine-to-Five
The Vanishing Beauty: The Marriage Drama Where the Wife Plans the Divorce Like a Takeover
A guide to the Tencent Video marriage drama The Vanishing Beauty as it airs: the heiress who treats her divorce as a fight over evidence and company control, Li Yitong's modern lead, the lawyer and what Chinese divorce law says.