Sun Lifang was supervising her daughter as she dried her hands and prepared to serve rice when she heard a quarrel coming from the direction of the front door.

She had been battling with that voice for decades and was all too familiar with it—the voice that would scream at the top of its lungs whenever someone argued.

Sun Lifang is actually a very tolerant person, especially after she made up her mind to get rid of her family of origin and the personalities and temperaments of those people, which she found extremely disgusting.

So in her past life, she tried her best to be gentle and proper, and not to argue with others in the street like a market vendor, and she endured it all.

There was only one person who could make her emotionally collapse – Zhou Yunshi's vampire mother.

Chen Yan's crying and commotion outside quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers.

She was very satisfied and shook off Jiang Meimei's hand: "Let go of me! I'm not going in! Today I'm going to let everyone judge how this daughter-in-law treats her mother-in-law!"

Jiang Meimei, being shy, said, "If you have something to say, let's go inside and talk while we eat."

"Who do you think you are?" The man next to Chen Yan shoved her forcefully, his tone contemptuous. "Get out of the way! Let Sun Lifang come out!"

Jiang Meimei had worked on the farm since she was a child and was very strong. When she saw the two of them about to cause trouble, she immediately slammed the door shut and confronted the mother and son outside.

Zhou Xinya ran over and hooked her hand with her mother's. She handed her a glass of water and looked towards the door. "Grandma's here?"

Sun Lifang held the cup by the handle, gazing down at the ripples in the glass. After a long while, she finally looked up and said, "Right?"

She doesn't deserve to be your grandmother at all.

Zhou Xinya looked at her mother with a blank expression, but she could sense some of her emotions.

Sun Lifang didn't want her daughter to hear those filthy words, so she took the food to her small room and locked the door.

When she gave birth to Zhou Xinya, they hadn't been allocated a house yet. To save money, the family rented a dark tenement building where they never saw the sun.

Because it was a daughter, Chen Yan took the child and abandoned her without even informing her.

“With the one-child policy, if you have this child, you can’t have a second one. Don’t you want a son?” At that time, Chen Yan’s temper was not so reckless.

Sun Lifang didn't care; this was her own flesh and blood. On a windy day, she went outside in her pajamas to look for it.

Her heart was breaking; how could her daughter just disappear like that?

Moreover, Chen Yan had a good reason: she had given birth to two sons, and if her daughter-in-law couldn't have children, then she was useless.

"Take care of yourself, don't look for anything else." Chen Yan closed the door, pulled Sun Lifang to sit down by the honeycomb briquette stove inside, and poured her a cup of hot water from the kettle on the stove. "Girls aren't worth much, don't make things difficult for yourself."

"You're still in your postpartum period on such a windy day. What if you develop health problems later?" Chen Yan held her daughter-in-law's hand in her own to warm it, and pretended to shed two tears.

"What do you take me for? I'll raise my own child, whether it's a boy or a girl, it's all the same." Sun Lifang was young and didn't understand these intricacies, so she couldn't get angry at someone who "cared" for her.

She didn't argue with Chen Yan, but went from house to house asking one by one.

Fortunately, perseverance pays off. After searching for half a month, they finally found out that a family had taken Zhou Xinya in.

An elderly woman working in a factory, with no children.

Sun Lifang inquired for several days, but dared not ask for it rashly, and circled around the door again and again.

Through the window, she saw the older woman feeding her daughter formula, and the daughter was eating better than the older women.

It would be a lie to say it wasn't heartbreaking. The older woman even put a silver bell anklet on her daughter's ankle; as she kicked her legs, the bell rang.

The older woman lives in a two-bedroom apartment provided by her work unit, which is sunny.

"His retirement pension is quite substantial; this kid is truly living a life of luxury."

"Aunt Sun is clean and hardworking. She used to be a nanny in the army. She doesn't have any children, so all the money will eventually come from this kid."

Sun Lifang found out a lot of information about Grandma Sun.

She hesitated.

But he couldn't help it; as if he had lost his soul, he came every day to secretly observe.

Grandma Sun is truly kind to the baby she found; she even hesitates to part with the baby formula.

Later, when Zhou Yunshi returned from out of town and wanted to see his child, Chen Yan repeated the same story to her son.

Unexpectedly, this didn't work, and Zhou Yunshi lost his temper. For the first time, he, who was always filial to his mother, suggested that they "live separately."

"Will you tell me or not? Where did you lose it?"

Chen Yan swallowed hard, knowing she couldn't hide it any longer, so she could only confess.

At the same time, Aunt Sun also noticed Sun Lifang, who had been loitering around the door all day, and invited her in.

With just a few words, the old man was able to get her to talk. At that time, Sun Lifang was naive, and her anxiety was obvious to the old man.

Upon seeing the child up close, the mother's heart ached, and she choked out, "Can I take her back? I'll give you money, and I'll compensate you for whatever you spend."

"You can hold him," Grandma Sun said without saying anything, handing the child to her.

Sun Lifang cried as soon as she received the child. The baby was so light and soft. She wanted to say something more, but when she turned around, she saw the person rushing towards her.

The man, whom I hadn't seen in a long time, stood at the door with a gloomy face.

...

Sun Lifang leaned against the entrance hall, one hand resting on the shelf, listening expressionlessly.

Even through the door, Chen Yan's extremely sarcastic voice could be heard: "Are you a maid? Think carefully about who pays your salary before you speak. I'm your boss's mother. Open the door and let Sun Lifang talk to me!"

Jiang Meimei looked at her with complicated emotions. "President Zhou instructed that the boss's wife is not feeling well and that guests are not allowed to come over. Please wait a moment, I'll call President Zhou first."

"A guest?" Chen Yan asked incredulously, "Am I a guest? Open your eyes and look carefully, this house still belongs to my son!"

"Sun Lifang, you come out here! I've been feeding and supporting you for free, and I thought you were a good person, but I never expected you to be so wicked, instigating my son to withhold my child support payments!"

"If you keep doing this, I'll call the police!" Jiang Meimei was shocked by Chen Yan's unreasonable behavior. Although her mother-in-law was nagging, she wouldn't embarrass her son in public.

Family scandals should not be aired in public, but Chen Yan had no such concern whatsoever.

"Call the police? Fine, go ahead and call them. Let's see if the police can arrest me!" Chen Yan slapped her thigh and sat down on the spot, shouting loudly, "This is perfect for everyone to see. The nanny my son hired is trying to arrest her old mother. Come on, hurry up and get me arrested! Call the police!"

Jiang Meimei was so angry and angry that she didn't dare to look up.

When did she say she was going to arrest someone?

Little did she know that her concession only made Chen Yan more smug. "It was a mistake for my son to marry this woman. I didn't want her to marry him in the first place, but she kept pestering him."

Seeing that Jiang Meimei wouldn't open the door, Chen Yan didn't mind spreading rumors about her daughter-in-law's "shameful deeds" outside.

"Speaking of which, I guess you could call my daughter-in-law a mistress."

This one sentence successfully whetted the appetite of the onlookers.

Sun Lifang is a mistress? The neighbors looked at Chen Yan excitedly, urging her to speak again.