Prosperity throughout the four seasons

The news of my husband and the rescue team collectively going missing spread all over the internet.
My father-in-law, under the sixty-degree ground temperature, recorded a video in the desert pleading with me.
My mother-in-law angrily berated me in front of the media as cold-blooded and heartless.
The entire internet is condemning me as the vicious wife who disregards her husband's safety.
I only turned on do not disturb mode, held my peacefully sleeping daughter, and enjoyed a beauty spa at the maternity center.
Three days ago, I was sent into the delivery room.
Yet my husband, due to an urgent call for help related to his childhood friend, was eager to rush to Lop Nur overnight.
On the operating table, in pain and convulsing, I sent him a voice message with tears in my eyes.
"At the time when the child and I need you the most, if you choose Yu Xiaoxiao, then never come back to this home."
A long time after, he only responded with: "You have doctors; only I can save Xiaoxiao!"


Love Has Faded, Hatred is in Vain

With my mother-in-law's skepticism, conspiracy theories online also kept emerging non-stop.


But I didn't care about these things; what does it matter how big the public opinion is? It's just a matter of having a bit of a bad reputation at most.


After staying peacefully in the hospital for half a month, I transferred to the most expensive postpartum care center in the city.


No one here knows I'm that malicious wife being scolded mercilessly online.


And no one will carelessly say things that would upset me and affect my breastfeeding.


Perhaps knowing that I would never step forward to save someone, my in-laws finally quieted down.


My life seemed to return to peace again.


Just as my body had almost recovered, there was finally news about Jiang Yuzhou, who had been missing in Lop Nur for nearly a month.


He and Yu Xiaoxiao were rescued in the Lop Nur desert and even created a survival miracle, being reposted and praised by major media platforms…


When I heard the news, I felt no ripples in my heart.


After recuperating, I had been waiting for Jiang Yuzhou to come back so we could get a divorce.


In the afternoon, after my daughter fell asleep, I took out my phone and opened the short video app's live stream.


As expected, Jiang Yuzhou and the others were safely returning to the country and were being interviewed by a rush of media.


In the footage, Jiang Yuzhou and Yu Xiaoxiao walked out of the airport hand in hand.


They didn't look like they had survived a disaster; rather, they looked like a sweet couple walking the red carpet together.


"We did it, Yuzhou and I opened up a new route and successfully traversed Lop Nur!"


Yu Xiaoxiao was so skinny she looked different, but she didn't feel tired at all, bragging about her success to everyone she met.


Jiang Yuzhou had various scars on his face and body, but he gazed tenderly at the woman beside him.


The in-laws quickly appeared in the footage, the three of them—no, the four of them—hugging each other and crying.


Almost everyone on-site was happy for them, with no one realizing something was off.


Until Jiang Yuzhou wiped his tears and asked my mother-in-law.


"Mom, where's An Ran? Why didn't she come?"


Chapter 5