Chapter 1 — A Life Without Return

On the day my mother separated, everything turned out to be extremely unsightly. She wore a simple white cloth, carrying only a few boxes of dowry behind, and was kicked out of Qin Palace. People around her laughed at her for becoming an abandoned woman. Older brother hid behind the door, his voice full of resentment:

"Auntie Van has worked so hard to take care of father. Father just wants to marry her as a wife, why can't mother tolerate it?"

"Sat Sat, she is disrespectful to her grandmother and disrespectful to her husband. I absolutely must not learn from her in the future."

I don't understand. The mother-in-law was bitter and had always looked down on her mother. His father was injured and was in a coma for several years. It was his mother who went everywhere looking for a doctor to find medicine for him. Who would have thought that as soon as he woke up, he wanted to give me a card. Why does the person at fault turn into the mother in the end? Looking at her lonely back, right before the moment the Qin Palace gate closed, I quickly crawled through the crack of the door and ran out. I walked over and grabbed her hand.

“Mother, Iron Iron is with you.”

01

The mother's eyes immediately turned red. Ever since she proposed to separate, she said she wanted to take me and brother Tan Man out of here together. But his brother refused, and even pushed his mother aggressively.

"Who wants to go with you? Have you ever paid attention to us over the years?"

"Now that you have been kicked out of the Qin family, why do you still want to take us with you to suffer?"

Not only that, brother also ordered someone to lock me up. He constantly warned me:

"Tan Sat Sat, don't be stupid anymore. If you follow her, you'll only be a beggar in the future."

"She is not gentle, nor does she know how to follow rules, so she is not worthy of being our mother. Later, when we had Auntie Van, she is our mother."

I don't understand. Why did things turn out like this? When I was three years old, my father was injured and fell into a coma. The Qin government used all its connections to invite an old physician, but he only sighed.

"Forgive this old man who is incompetent and cannot be cured. You should invite other noble people."

But even the royal doctor can't cure it, so who else can? The grandmother immediately became so impatient that she fainted. At that time, the Tan family was preparing to take care of the funeral. Only the mother was not willing.

"The great hermit often hides himself in the market streets. If there is no way in the palace, maybe the magic doctors hidden among the people can save him."

From then on, whenever I heard of a place with a magical medicine, or if there was a divine doctor who refused to come to this world, my mother would think of every possible way to find it, hoping to cure her father. One time, she didn't care about the ten thousand miles of road and went all the way to Taizhou alone. When she returned, she was exhausted but brought the miracle medicine with her. After my father took the medicine, his fingers were indeed able to move. Everyone up and down in the palace was happy, even the great-grandmother rarely smiled at her. That night, mother came to comfort me to sleep. I sadly threw myself into her arms.

"Mom, is it okay if you don't go in the future? Dad keeps sleeping, you're not here, I'm so scared."

She gently stroked my hair, but tears fell drop by drop.

"Silly child, those old clans are always looking at the main line of the Qin family. Mother must replace your father. support this inheritance.”

“Furthermore, in the past, your father had the grace to save your mother's life. Now, how can mother stand by and watch?"

“Iron Iron wait a little longer. Soon your father will get well again. At that time, our whole family will be reunited.”

But we keep waiting. Waiting for the day when father really wakes up and can get out of bed and walk around. He wanted to marry Lieu Van Ha as his wife. Our family just fell apart completely.

02

Lieu Van Ha is her father's younger sister. When her condition began to improve, her grandmother welcomed her into the palace. At that time, my mother just happened to go far away to find a magic doctor. Lieu Van Ha is newly widowed, and my brother and I have no one to take care of us. From the first day she entered the government, she treated us extremely well. She made delicious cakes for us and also sewed adorable fabric tigers herself. Even his older brother, who was always raised by his grandmother, was gradually bribed by her. But I don't like her. I have seen Lieu Van Ha blushing as she wiped her comatose father's body, and have also seen her use a gentle voice to read soothing poems to her father. That position should originally belong to the mother. But her grandmother liked her. Tan Man also likes her. Even when his father woke up, he thought that the person who woke him up was Lieu Van Ha who was by his side every day. No one remembers their mother. She only has me left. I squeezed her hand and said in a low voice:

“Wherever mother goes, Iron Sat will go. Mother, don't give up Iron Iron."

“Tan Iron Iron!” Before his mother could speak, Tan Man angrily opened the door.

He didn't step forward, just stood on the other side of the threshold looking at us.

“Why are you so stupid!”

“Hmph, from now on, the Tan family will be headed by me. If you leave, even if I become a beggar, I will absolutely never look at you again!”

Being teased by him, I felt so sorry for myself that I unconsciously sniffed. My mother's arm that was hugging me also trembled. Her voice was hoarse, as if she had to exert a lot of effort to speak.

“Min Nhi, you are the senior, how can you treat Iron Sat like that?”