With Little Family Support, I Turned the Tide: A Journey of Love and Growth

Marriage is the journey that makes a woman grow up fast!

The torrential rain pounds against the stroller’s canopy like a drumroll. Tong Nanke uses her coat to shield her two seven-month-old sons. Icy rain runs down her collar and into her neck as she kneels on the steps outside the door. The fingerprint lock’s mechanical voice announces “Verification failed” for the third time.

Her father-in-law tricked her into leaving, then locked her out. Neon lights blur into patches of color through the curtain of rain. Just then, her husband’s older brother calls. “Sister-in-law, take the kids and go. Jingchuan wants a divorce. You can’t stay here anymore. Mom and Dad are about to leave with me...”

“But you could have just talked to me properly. Why did you have to trample all over me like this... and make me take the children’s things...”

Tong Nanke kneels in the puddles, facing the pain she has kept bottled up. At this moment, she hates them all.