On the night my elder sister married, Rong Shi held me and cried all night.
“Zhaozhao, she still got married... You were right. I shouldn’t have hoped for more. From now on, we’ll live well as husband and wife.”
I thought at last the clouds had parted and the moon had come out.
But the day Daliang fell, he still abandoned my daughter and me, protecting my elder sister and her daughter as they fled.
All I could do was drag my violated body over and pick up my daughter, who had been trampled by warhorses, smiling like a fool.
“Niannian, your mother really is foolish. How could I believe that heartless man again?”
Afterward, Rong Shi took his own life to beg for forgiveness, but I could never trust him again.
So later, when the enemy forced him to choose between two people, I picked up my daughter’s corpse and jumped from the city wall without hesitation.
