In the eyes of others, Chen Jianjun is a company director who is considerate to his subordinates and a good husband who is gentle and considerate of his family. Only his wife Lin Xiaoyu knows that this sanctimonious man can turn into a devil after drinking - smashing furniture, punching and kicking, and even extending his poisonous hand to his young daughter Fangfang. During her three-year marriage, Lin Xiaoyu had countless bruises hidden under her kitchen apron. Concealer could not cover the injuries at the corners of her eyes. She counted the cracks in the ceiling and endured beatings with a belt. She knelt on broken glass until her knees bled, just because she was afraid that the mother and daughter would have nowhere to go after the divorce. The tears when he knelt down to admit his mistake during community mediation, the "accident" he made up to the doctor in the hospital, and the "repentance" when he slapped himself in the police station all became the prelude to more severe revenge. Until Fangfang was pricked with blood on her feet by broken glass, the mother looked at her daughter's trembling figure, remembering the kick in the stomach during the miscarriage, the cell phone thrown when applying for a job, the torn divorce agreement in the fairy tale book, and finally raised the cutting knife... When the siren sounded, she hugged her daughter and sat in a pool of blood and laughed - this suffocating marriage was finally torn open with blood. The novel uses the rough texture of Northeastern dialect to explore the dark corners of family ethics. In the dialogue of punches and kicks, it describes a woman's psychological transformation from tolerance to collapse.
Purpose: By presenting the entire process of domestic violence victims from tolerance to resistance, it exposes the oppression of power and emotional abuse in intimate relationships, calls on society to face up to the hidden dangers of violence in family ethics, shows the awakening of women's maternal power in desperate situations, and how long-term suppressed human nature can lead to extreme resistance amid institutional neglect (such as mediation failure, workplace discrimination, and economic dependence). The work reflects on the shackles placed on victims by the traditional concept that "family scandals should not be publicized", emphasizing the need for individuals to redeem themselves in a suffocating environment. It also triggers in-depth thinking on the social causes behind "reacting violence with violence."