A Life Hanging by a Thread: The Younger Sister Refuses to Be an Obedient Woman

[A Life on the Line] [Wu Ximei] [Cao Xiaojun]

“This life is so pointless.”

The moment Wu Ximei saw the bloodstained bracelet, she knew he hadn’t made it out.

Unable to believe it, she rubbed the pattern on the bracelet again and again as tears streamed down her face.

Memories of their past flooded her mind, and all she felt was boundless guilt. She had let him down.

The only person in this life who had ever listened to her was gone.

She didn’t understand how things had spiraled so far out of control.

But she knew there was no point thinking about it now.

In the blink of an eye, everything went hazy. She had returned to the day she married Guo Adi, before she had met Ni Xiangdong, before she had met him.

Back in the past, Wu Ximei thought about many things.

She remembered the sweet entanglement she had once shared with Ni Xiangdong.

She also remembered the hard days when she and Cao Xiaojun struggled together against a life of poverty.

At last, she thought of the source of it all: the woman who had never appeared again, but had told her over and over to be obedient.

In her last life, she listened to Grandma, to her uncle, to Guo Adi, and later to Ni Xiangdong. But what did she get in the end?

What did she get?

Nothing at all.

This time, given another chance, she didn’t want to listen to anyone.

She wanted to... find Cao Xiaojun sooner, the only person in her last life who had ever listened to her.

She would give him a home and build a steady, happy life with him.

“Hello, my name is Wu Ximei. What’s yours?”

“What’s your name?”

“Cao Xiaojun.

The Jun in ‘gentleman.’”