For three years of marriage, Shen Yu did everything she could to be a gentle, virtuous wife and mother.
But the obedience she thought would win them over only earned her a husband’s betrayal and her son’s resentment.
In their eyes, she was a woman who used her disadvantaged position to climb the social ladder.
Her husband despised her, her son misunderstood her, and neither of them had ever made a place for her in their hearts.
Heartbroken, she walked away. She stopped dwelling on the past and started her life over.
Free of her family, she took charge of her own life again and shone brightly.
The father and son who had once treated her like dirt now begged her on their knees to forgive them.
She looked at them coldly. “Too late.”
