I was married off to a disabled hero in lieu of marriage; my in-laws doted on me and I aspired to gr

Opening the courtyard gate, Yao Xing smiled sheepishly, "Sister Man, I thought you moved away. Have you eaten yet? I still have leftovers at home."

"No need, Yao Xing, thank you."

"We're neighbors, no need to thank me. Isn't Brother Lin here?"

Zhang Man shook her head bitterly and said with a faint smile, "Yao Xing, you've made a fool of yourself."

"Sister Man, outsiders can't judge right or wrong in matters of the heart. Life goes on, I hope you can stay strong."

"Yao Xing, I heard you bought Fang's house?"

"Yes, five hundred yuan. I'll fix it up when I have the money."

"That's great. I watched you move here and buy a house in less than a year."

"I guess I'm just lucky. Sister Man, you'll get better too."

"Yao Xing, I also want to sell my yard for five hundred yuan. Could you keep an eye out for it and see if anyone wants it?"

"Really? Sister Man, your house was just renovated, five hundred yuan is too cheap. Besides, you and Zhang Li are going to live here." Yao Xing was very surprised.

"My reputation is ruined, I can't stay in the shantytown anymore. I have a dormitory at the school, and as for Zhang Li, once he's discharged from the army and gets a job, he'll have a house."

Zhang Man looked at the small courtyard, a place that held 25 years of her memories.

Now she has to leave; the spittle of her neighbors could drown her.

"Sister Man, the rumors will pass in a while."

"You don't understand. Some topics they can discuss for a lifetime. I don't want to trap myself in pain. It's time to cut ties. Yao Xing, I'll give you a key. If someone is interested in my house, come to the school and I'll transfer the ownership immediately."

Zhang Man went inside and got a key, handing it to Yao Xing. Yao Xing took it and said sullenly, "Sister Man, I'll go raise some money to buy your house. I'll give you three years. If you want to buy it back, I won't raise the price."

"Yao Xing, thank you for your sincerity in this situation."

Zhang Man's eyes reddened. Her neighbors were eager to expose and discuss her scandals, but only Yao Xing truly sympathized with her.

"Sister Man, you should rest. Let me know when you're moving."

"Okay, thank you."

Yao Xing took the keys and went back. No matter what outsiders said about Zhang Man, he felt that a person who respects his parents could not be considered a bad person.

Moreover, he and Zhang Li had a brotherly bond, and he couldn't take advantage of someone's misfortune.

Yao Xing also thought of himself. He got into Huailin University by taking the exam for someone else, and when he was expelled, his classmates mocked him. He didn't even have the courage to face them.

Zhang Man quietly packed her things, including a lot of tattered and worn items. She decided to leave them all behind and only take her change of clothes.

Zhang Man took down her mother's portrait and stroked it, overwhelmed with grief.

That day, if I hadn't come out and let Lin Jie handle the matter between him and Han Dan, my mother wouldn't have been so cruel as to fall off the kang (a heated brick bed).

If she doesn't say hurtful things one day, Han Dan won't be so desperate as to hurt her own child.

That day……

Zhang Man had too many regrets; she hated Han Dan, and she also hated herself.

I don't know when it started, but Zhang Man turned into a shrew who begged men for even a little bit of love.

Han Dan may have been being unreasonable, but is she the only one at fault?

As Han Dan said, knowing that Lin Jie was a married man, she still got so close to him.

Zhang Man, who single-handedly supports her family, desperately longs for even the slightest bit of warmth from Lin Jie.

One wrong step leads to another, and now I've been kicked out of the Lin family. What have I been doing all these years?

Zhang Man didn't have the courage to return to her old school, so she applied to the principal to be transferred from the Second Primary School to teach in the countryside.

Once she left, Zhang Man could never come back.

Han Dan committed suicide. During her lunch, she deliberately broke a bowl, picked up a small piece of porcelain, and cut her pulse when it was quiet at night.

Han Dan didn't want to die, but her parents cut off all her chances of survival.

When her parents came to the detention center, her mother angrily scolded her: "What have you done? You've already divorced Lin Jie and are about to marry Wang Hongqi, so why did you still come to cause trouble? Now look what's happened. Lin Jie promised to find a job for your brother, and now everything is ruined."

The father, enraged, said, "You filthy bitch, you're making such a mess of the whole family! You might as well die in prison. The Han family has no daughter like you."

Han Dan could accept anyone calling her a filthy bitch, but she couldn't accept her father calling her that.

She wasn't a slut; she wanted to live a good life with Lin Jie and also wanted to marry Wang Hongqi.

It was them; they were deceiving themselves.

Han Dan had no reason to live anymore. She had no husband's family, no family of her own, no children, and no friends.

She cut off her wrist. There were eight women in the detention center dormitory, and no one knew that Han Dan had committed suicide.

Cutting your wrist must hurt a lot, right? She remained completely silent.

The next morning at dawn, the roommate saw the bright red stains on the floor and fainted from fright.

Han Dan did not face legal judgment. The detention center compensated the Han family with 1,000 yuan. The Han family did not want the ashes, but took the 1,000 yuan back to make arrangements for their son.

Han Dan had high hopes when she married Lin Jie.

She wanted to eat white flour steamed buns, grow old with Lin Jie, and have several more children.

She wanted to use her marriage to pave a brighter future for her parents and younger brother.

Han Dan did it; she was able to eat white flour steamed buns and saved a lot of money to pay for her mother's medical treatment.

Han Dan failed to achieve her goal; the love she desired most remained unfulfilled until her death.

Han Dan is a tragedy of the times; two people who had no feelings for each other were forced together for the sake of interests.

The Lin family treated Han Dan harshly, regarding her as a maid they bought to bear children.

When Lin Jie became impotent, he adopted a child to keep Han Dan by his side.

Han Dan is a human being; she also needs normal emotional care. In a long-term cold and distorted relationship, Han Dan's psychology began to become abnormal.

Han Dan felt only obedience, not love, towards Lin Jie.

Han Dan doesn't know how to love someone because her family didn't teach her how to love.

If, if Han Dan had taken the 500 yuan Lin Jie gave her after her divorce, rented a place, worked hard, and didn't rush into another relationship, her path wouldn't have been so difficult, right?

Having escaped a failed relationship, Han Dan desperately wanted to prove herself. She wanted to find a man to prove herself, but was swindled out of all her money by Wang Hongqi.

Han Dan died, and the only person who grieved for her was Qiaoqiao.

They came from the same path, but as they walked, they took completely different paths.

Han Dan, like a grain of sand, is buried in the vast sea of ​​people.

Qiaoqiao sighed deeply; an unhappy marriage is an invisible knife.

Qiaoqiao was very fortunate to have met the magnanimous Zhou family.

Women trapped in emotions, when you can't see what lies ahead, why not stop, slow down, and slow down some more? Time will heal our wounds, and time will help us make the right choices.