After I Kicked My Husband's Family Out

I bought our marital home outright before we got married.

After the wedding, my brother-in-law and his family of three moved in. They stayed for three years. They slept on the living-room floor, scribbled all over the walls, and I never got to eat any of the meat in the fridge. I put up with it all for three years, only for my brother-in-law to slap me six times in front of the whole family at a dinner gathering.

My husband lowered his head and said nothing. My in-laws pretended not to notice.

I didn’t cry or make a scene. The next day, I went to the property transaction center.

Three days later, the new owner showed up with the property deed. “I bought this place. You have one hour to move out.”

My brother-in-law was stunned, my mother-in-law went hysterical, and my husband finally spoke his first words.

But I didn’t want to hear them anymore.

He asked if we could start over.

I told him, “Too late.”

The day the 3.2 million yuan from the sale came through, I blocked every number from my in-laws’ family. But before the divorce papers were even signed, my mother-in-law brought relatives to my workplace and unfurled a banner: “An unfilial daughter-in-law deserves no mercy.”

For the first time, my husband stood in front of me and shouted at his mother, “Enough!”

But can I really trust him again?

When a woman’s heart has been broken, how much is a man’s remorse worth?

Selling the house in retaliation isn’t the end. It’s the beginning.

All she lost was a house. What her in-laws lost was the last person willing to put up with them.

[Marriage first, love later · clear-headed heroine · lawful revenge · husband’s long road to redemption]