Ji Niannian often wondered if she had wiped out her husband’s entire family in her past life, since in this one she had married far from home and spent every day paying off the debt.
Her husband worked away from home year-round, and she could go an entire year without seeing him. In name, Ji Niannian was a daughter-in-law; in reality, she was left all alone.
Her domineering father-in-law pushed her around at every turn, while her sharp-tongued mother-in-law found fault with everything she did.
Her brother-in-law and his wife had been married for years without having a child, and had become sarcastic and sour-tempered.
Her sister-in-law was even more unbelievable: she married a gambler in her first marriage, then a man who had already been married twice in her second, and still couldn’t settle down. She brought her man and his child to live off the family for free.
The house was full of oddballs. She had no husband to stand up for her and no support from her own family.
This marriage far from home brought no happiness. It was a karmic debt Ji Niannian would spend her whole life repaying!
