Begonias Bloom, Yet I’m Still Awake

Six months ago, I had just turned twenty when I married Chen Jiangyuan, who was ten years older than me and unable to have children. During our six months of marriage, he treated me very well. For a time, I thought life was peaceful and gentle, and that I could go on living a simple, happy life as a wife and mother, managing the household and raising children. Then, on the day I gave birth, that calm shattered like a bubble. It had all been an illusion. My mother-in-law sold my baby, my husband imprisoned me, and he even wanted me to have a child with his mentally disabled younger brother...