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"You're already part of our Old Zhao Family." My mother-in-law stood in front of me with a stern old face, her cheeks trembling with anger:

"Today, this centipede, you have to eat it whether you want to or not."

A centipede, still covered in soil and writhing grotesquely, was clutched in my mother-in-law's hand.

Before this live centipede, the remedies my mother-in-law found were nothing more than stove ash or charm water.

Those things at most gave me diarrhea for a day or two after consuming them.

But this live centipede would definitely harm my health.

Yet at that time, my husband Zhao Songzhuang treated me very well, indulging me in every way.

I also thought that the inability to have children was my issue, feeling guilty and desperately trying to bear a child for him.

Whatever remedies my mother-in-law brought, I would follow them without hesitation.

Looking back now, clearly that man harbored malicious intent, unable himself, yet trying to coax me into having a child, pretending to care.

If he truly loved me, he should have stood up when his mother and sister-in-law trampled on me.

Sadly, at the time I was blinded, hoodwinked, not realizing this.

Now, I refuse to be soft-hearted!

Looking at the lively centipede before me, I turned away coldly:

"If you want to eat it, go ahead, but I won't."

For so many years, I obeyed every word, suddenly rebelling. My mother-in-law was taken aback at first, then furious:

"Our Zhao Family has been cursed for eight generations, marrying you — a hen that won't lay eggs."

"You have such a vicious heart, wanting our Zhao Family to end without heirs."

My mother-in-law charged at me ferociously, trying to force the centipede into my mouth.

Unexpectedly, ever since I joined, she and the sister-in-law gave all the chores to me just to wear me out.

But after years of living a pampered life, her strength was not what it used to be, and she was no match for me.

With just a single push from me, she fell to the ground, and the centipede slipped away, disappearing somewhere.

"I'm too old to bear children now, why don't you find a bride for the sister-in-law and marry a young woman instead?"