Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The year I hated Zhou Xu most…

I hit the little girl he loved most, and he slapped me back before asking me for a divorce.

All these years, what he said to me most often was that I should learn to behave and be a little gentler, more docile and considerate, like Lin Tiantian.

It was the first time he had ever asked for a divorce.

I refused. I pinned him to the floor and broke three of his ribs, then, before he could keep talking, I locked my hand around his throat and choked him unconscious.

Before Zhou Xu rolled his eyes back and passed out, the last thing I left him with was this: “You want a divorce? Not a chance. If the two of you are going to drive me insane, then you can bear the consequences yourselves. Lin Tiantian can only be the other woman for the rest of her life, and the two of you can spend that life living under my shadow.”

Back then, I had already filled my head with plans. I was ready to figure out exactly how to torment them, entangle myself with them, and drag it all out until death.

I had always held grudges. Once I sank my teeth into my prey, I did not let go.

In three years of marriage, Zhou Xu had turned me from someone who had once walked into the wedding hall with him full of joy and hope into the lunatic I was now.

That shameless pair had done me no small amount of harm. I swore that even if I had to waste the rest of my life on it, I would never let them live happily.

For that, I had even prepared a house and some land elsewhere, all for the sake of a long-term battle.

But heaven never lets you know how the next step of your life is supposed to go.

I thought I would spend my whole life taking revenge on Zhou Xu.

I never expected that on only the third day…

I would find Xue Ke passed out from hunger at my front gate.

At the time, I had heard that Zhou Xu had woken up in the hospital and, in front of all the relatives and friends visiting him, cursed me out as a lunatic.

Excited, I put on makeup and picked out my most flamboyant outfit, ready to go to the scene and infuriate him in person.

I did not expect that the moment I stepped out of the courtyard gate, I would kick a large, humanoid unidentified object.

In a daze, I turned the person over and saw a face in the prime of youth.

At the time, Xue Ke had had his luggage stolen. Then he went to a supermarket to work as a temporary laborer unloading goods, only to be tricked into working three days for nothing. By then, he was so hungry he could barely think straight.

In his delirium, that hand grabbed the hem of my skirt.

I saw his lips move and could not help leaning a little closer.

Then I heard his voice, faint as a thread. “Mom…”

…

After a long silence, I could not help saying, “…Dawa?”

No one answered me. He had already passed out from hunger.