Previous life: Married Li Gouzi at eighteen. Over twelve years of marriage, she took more beatings than she ate meat. Giving birth to a girl only made her standing in her husband's family worse. She spent her days laboring in the fields and her nights mending and washing clothes. She died coughing up blood at thirty. In her final moments, she wasn't thinking of that cursed man. She was thinking of the time Li Gouzi had pinned her down on a field ridge and beaten her, and Jiang Yuanchao had happened to pass by. Without a word, he'd kicked Li Gouzi flying, then crouched down and asked, “Sis, are you all right?”
Luckily, she was reborn on the day of her engagement. Su Xiuhe held a bowl of eggs cooked with brown sugar and looked at Li Gouzi, who sat across from her with a greedy look on his face. Her hatred blazed.
In her previous life, that bowl of eggs had been the first step into twelve years of hell.
This time
She smiled and set the bowl on the table. “Mom, I'm not going through with this engagement.”
