Chapter 1 — After the Divorce, I Stopped Paying for My Mother-in-Law's Medicine

After holding the divorce certificate in my hand, the first thing I did was to stop sending the 8,000 yuan monthly medical bill to my mother-in-law. At that time, Giang Diec Xuyen was still busy standing by his white moonlight in a high-class residential center, completely unaware of anything. He kept texting me asking me why I was being so cruel, did he want his mother to stop smoking and wait to die. I don't answer. Until he finished taking care of the person in his arms and carried it back home under his armpit, he was completely dumbfounded. The house was sold by me. The furniture had also been cleaned up, not a single item remained. He didn't know that the money to buy a house that year was paid by my parents. I didn't even know that at this moment, his mother was kneeling in front of my house, crying and begging. The afternoon was sweltering and sweltering. The hallway of the old apartment building was as hot as a giant steamer. In front of the apartment I just rented, a drama was taking place that was even more suffocating than the weather. Trieu Que Lan — my ex-mother-in-law — knelt down in front of the anti-theft door, her hands continuously hitting the tile floor, her cries growing louder and louder.

“Shen Duong, you have no conscience!”

“What have we, the Giang family, done wrong to you that you want to drive us to death like that?”

"I worked hard to raise a son, but in the end you ruined everything! You comet!"

Her cries and curses quickly attracted neighbors. The doors of the house opened one by one, each curious face peered out to observe. I held the cup of pu-erh I had just mixed, stood inside the door, quietly looking at that wrinkled face through my magic eyes. Not angry. Not even sad. Because of this drama... I've been waiting for a long time. The phone on the dining table vibrates continuously. The screen displayed three words: Giang Diec Xuyen. I don't answer the phone. Just put down the cup of tea and let the phone ring over and over again. More than ten minutes passed, Trieu Que Lan's throat began to feel hoarse. I took the key from the shoe cabinet and opened the door. The heat and the sound of gossip immediately hit my face. As soon as she saw me, her crying immediately subsided. She leaned on her hands and feet and crawled towards me.

"Duong Duong! My good daughter-in-law!"

"Mom was wrong! Mom really knew it was wrong!"

I slightly leaned to the side. She missed. The whole person hit the floor hard. His forehead hit the brick, making a heavy "pop" sound.

“I can't be that cruel!”

"Di Xuyen will kill me! He will really kill me!"

I bowed my head to look at her.

“He wants your life because I stopped paying the 8,000 yuan monthly medical bill…”

“Or because I sold the house that he always claimed was the property of the Giang family?”

My voice is not loud. But the whole hallway heard every word clearly. Trieu Que Lan's cries immediately choked up. Facial muscles twitch continuously. Aunt Ly in the opposite apartment was carrying a pot of vegetables and couldn't help but speak up:

“Isn't that house the joint property of the couple?”

I looked at her.

“The deposit was paid by my parents.”

“I pay the installments myself.”

“The Giang family can only contribute two mouths to feed.”

Trieu Que Lan immediately jumped up from the ground. She brushed her knees, pointed straight at me and scolded:

“You lie!”

“That's my son's house!”

“Once you marry into the Giang family, everything belongs to the Giang family!”

Electricity The phone still keeps ringing. I turned around and went back into the house. Pick up the phone. Right in front of her, I opened my contacts, clicked on Giang Diec Xuyen's name and pulled it straight to the block list. Seeing that action, Trieu Que Lan's face immediately changed. She knows. Praying was in vain. The next second, her finger pointed straight at my face, her voice became shrill and shrill again.

“You woman who doesn't know how to give birth!”

“Bad food that only knows how to spend money!”

“Our Giang family is truly unlucky for eight generations to marry someone like you!”

"Eating at my house, staying at my house, now that you're stubborn, you want to kick my whole family aside!"

“Don't dream!”

“A woman like you deserves to be married to no one for the rest of her life!”

Cannot give birth to children. Those five words are like an old nail. Once again, I stabbed straight into a wound that I thought had long since closed. Two years ago. I am two months pregnant. That day, Zhao Guilan forced me to give 100,000 yuan to pay off her younger brother's gambling debt. I refuse. She stood in the middle of the living room, sarcastically implying that my mother's family was rich but pretended to be poor. I even doubted whether the baby in my belly was a descendant of the Giang family or not. I have only one answer:

“If you want money, tell Giang Diec Xuyen to go find it yourself.”

She rushed to push me. My back hit the corner of the coffee table hard. At that moment, a warm feeling immediately spread between my legs. I lay on the floor, trembling and called Giang Diec Xuyen. But the first thing he said was:

“My mother is old, don't always anger her.”

The baby couldn't keep it. On the surgical paper, two words were clearly written: Abortion. While signing the confirmation, Giang Diec Xuyen was still busy replying to other people's messages. Everywhere Trieu Que Lan went, she said that because my body was weak, I couldn't hold a drop of the Jiang family's blood. I didn't make a fuss then. Not because it doesn't hurt. But the pain was so bad that I didn't have the strength to open my mouth. Several sounds of cold air were heard in the hallway. Aunt Ly put the vegetable pot down on the shoe cabinet, frowned and said:

“Trieu Que Lan, what you say is too much.”

Trieu Que Lan immediately turned around and shouted back:

“What does it have to do with you?”

"She married into my family for three years and couldn't even give birth to a child. Am I wrong?"

I looked straight at her. Calmly ask:

“So why are you kneeling in front of a bad person's house?”

Trieu Que Lan immediately choked. At that moment, behind her, a young man holding a phone recording a video burst out laughing.

"Auntie, while cursing people for not knowing how to give birth, they begged people for money."

“Your skin is really thick.”

Hearing that, Trieu Que Lan immediately rushed forward to steal the phone.