Chapter 1

The sudden death of my husband's elder brother left us rushing back home for the funeral, but my mother-in-law demanded my husband lend himself to my sister-in-law to give her a child.

"Your brother loved you so much before, can you stand to see him without a successor? We're all family, as long as you help with the child, I'll take care of you and your sister-in-law afterward!"

I was so angry that my whole body trembled, and I immediately pulled my husband to leave, but he violently shook off my hand.

"Song Yun, it's just a small favor between brothers, why are you being so petty?"

Afraid I would make more trouble, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law locked my daughter and me in the woodshed.

Through the gap in the wooden door, I saw my husband holding my sister-in-law's hand, walking side by side into the bedroom still draped with white curtains.

My tears wouldn't stop flowing...

"Mommy, you haven't eaten since noon, please eat a little."

Two cold steamed buns were thrown in through the window, held by my daughter Duoduo, who ran over to me.

I shook my head, only holding Duoduo in my arms as I cried.

Meanwhile, from the nearby house came the painful sounds that tore through my heart.

The man's vigorous roars, the woman's passionate moans, I didn't need to see to know how intense the scene was.

"Mommy, that's Daddy's voice!" Duoduo excitedly shouted.

I held back my tears, covering Duoduo's ears tightly, not wanting her to hear these filthy sounds.

"Mommy, didn't you say those sounds were Daddy treating Auntie's illness? It's good to cure people, so why are you crying?" Duoduo absentmindedly tore at the bun, "I miss Grandpa and Grandma, when will Daddy take us home?"

My chest felt as if it were being torn apart, I closed my eyes, unable to speak a word.

When we were discussing marriage, my parents advised against it, fearing I would be wronged in Lu Xiangyu's impoverished and notoriously patriarchal family.

But at that time, blinded by love, I was convinced Lu Xiangyu would bring me happiness.

When we learned Duoduo was a girl, my mother-in-law at the delivery room door immediately changed her expression, cursed "You gave birth to a money-losing commodity," and left without looking back, carrying a basket of one hundred eggs.

That day, it was Lu Xiangyu who knelt by the hospital bed, swearing with all his might that he would protect Duoduo and me from his family's bullying, only then did I not divorce him on the spot.

For six years, my parents helped raise Duoduo, not once did his family visit.

If it weren't for the sudden death of Lu Xiangyu's brother, and his pleas in the name of brotherly love for me to accompany him with the child for the funeral, I would never want to see my mother-in-law again in this life.

Unexpectedly, this turned out to be the most regrettable decision of my life!

As night fell, my daughter fell asleep in my arms.

With a soft "click," the door to the woodshed was opened from the outside.

Lu Xiangyu quietly walked in, wearing unfamiliar pajamas, a satisfied look still on his face.

"Wife, you've worked hard. I've already told Mom, since the rice is already cooked, there's no need to keep you and Duoduo locked up, otherwise I would feel distressed."

He approached me with a caring smile, yet he reeked of another woman's perfume.

I held back my disgust, not turning against him on the spot.

My phone and communication devices had long been confiscated by my mother-in-law, and being in this remote mountain, without Lu Xiangyu leading the way, even if I managed to take my daughter and escape, I couldn't return to the city.

The current stopgap measure was to stabilize his family first.

After returning to the room and settling Duoduo, Lu Xiangyu eagerly pressed against my back.

"Wife, I've missed you to death in just one night, come and be intimate with your husband."