My three-year-old son was bitten by a venomous snake, and the venom had to be sucked out immediately.
I stood by, cold and unmoved, as if it had nothing to do with me.
In my previous life, when my son was bitten by a venomous snake, I was pregnant but immediately sucked the venom out of him.
He was rushed to the hospital and saved, but I miscarried and was left with lasting health problems. I spent every day clinging to life with medicine.
Worried I couldn't take proper care of our son, Shen Pei'an took him away to attend university. He promised that once he graduated, he'd come back for me and take me to the city to live in comfort.
I waited four years, but he never kept his promise.
I sold the last piece of jewelry I owned to buy a train ticket, then dragged my ruined body to the capital.
Following the address in the only letter Shen Pei'an had ever sent me, I found his home, only to discover he'd already built a new family with someone else.
I stormed over to Shen Pei'an's university and made a scene.
Seeing me rolling on the ground and making a spectacle of myself, Shen Pei'an calmly produced a marriage certificate.
“Gu Ning is the woman I legally married!”
“This woman is just a beggar my kind-hearted mother took in. She saw that I went to university and started imagining she could follow me to the city. When I refused, she got spiteful and made up lies about me!”
Staring at the marriage certificate, I lost my senses. In a daze, I was taken back to the police station.
I was sentenced to two years in prison. In just one month, the other inmates had tortured me until I was barely recognizable.
Two months later, Shen Pei'an finally took pity on me and came to visit.
“Shen Pei'an, I was your wife for ten years, and I even bore you a son. Why are you treating me like this?”
At my accusations, Shen Pei'an only gave a mocking smile:
“You're nothing but my