A young male intellectual sent to the countryside got a village girl pregnant, but when he returned to the city, he abandoned her and their two children.
The girl died by suicide in shame and fury, leaving only the two children behind.
I felt sorry for them, so despite my family's objections, I took them in.
For their sake, I worked myself to the bone all my life and never married.
But when I grew old and fell ill from years of hard work, they cast me aside like trash and kicked me out.
The elder son was greedy for profit and had become a famous businessman in the surrounding villages.
"Country folk are country folk. Do a little good and they expect to be repaid for it."
He flung two hundred yuan in my face and said disdainfully, "Here, take it. Don't come looking for me again. We're even now."
The younger daughter reunited with her biological father, and the two of them became a picture of filial harmony.
"If you hadn't forcibly taken my brother and me away, we would have reunited with Dad long ago! You kept us apart for all those years. You deserve to die to atone for it!"
Their biological father sneered too. "If you hadn't taken them in back then, I would have brought them home ages ago. They wouldn't have had to suffer with you."
Their family was reunited, and I became the greatest villain of all.
They threw me back into the countryside, where I starved to death.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back in the 1980s.
