Chapter 222 The Woman Who Watches the Door Alone

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Du Runiang had been the daughter of a wealthy family from the neighboring Yunan County, cherished and raised in the palm of her parents' hands since childhood. Unfortunately, at the age of ten, her mother fell ill and passed away. Her father remarried, and her stepmother, while she was still naive and unaware, arranged a marriage for her. The match was with a cousin from her stepmother's family, who was already seriously ill, and only managed to hold on until she reached the age of marriage before passing away.

She had thought that with the death of her stepmother's nephew, she would be free, but instead, her stepmother conspired with her own family to have her marry into widowed servitude, and to her dismay, her father did not object.