After Wang Fang returned home that day, she got into another fight with her daughter-in-law and had a tuft of her hair pulled out.
When her son came home from get off work, she cried and complained, "Dacheng, you have to do something about that shrew! She actually grabbed my hair and hit me! I can't live like this anymore!"
Zhang Cheng looked exhausted: "Nana used to be very gentle and filial to you. Haven't you ever thought about why she turned out this way?"
The daughter-in-law said coldly, "I got a manicure, and your mother asked me which wild man I was planning to seduce."
Wang Fang said guiltily, "I was just saying it casually. You don't earn a penny, you just enjoy yourself at home, and all you do is spend my son's money. Can't I even say a few words to you?"
The daughter-in-law said with a sneer, "I'm enjoying a life of luxury? You go and try to find another blind person to come and enjoy a life of luxury in your family."
"You think I'm spending your son's money? Fine, I'll spend other men's money from now on, and save your son's money to buy you a coffin."
Wang Fang screamed, "Son, did you hear that? She cursed me to die and even wants to go out and find another man! What are you waiting for if you don't beat her up?"
Zhang Cheng roared, "Enough! If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute."
Wang Fang looked at her son in disbelief, then rushed over and hit him while crying.
"You ungrateful wretch! Your father died young, and I raised you from infancy, and this is how you treat me? I might as well be dead."
The three children were terrified and cried loudly. The daughter-in-law took the children into the room and ignored the mother and children.
Zhang Cheng worked for more than ten hours, and was exhausted and hungry. When he got home, he didn't even get a hot meal. He also had to deal with the conflict between his mother and daughter-in-law. He felt like he was going crazy.
After being punched several times by his mother, Zhang Cheng pushed her away and fell onto the sofa.
The ordinary man's eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was choked with emotion.
"Mom, I'm begging you, please stop making a scene, okay? If you keep this up, our family will fall apart."
Wang Fang also cried: "What did I do wrong? You coward, you just watched your mother being bullied and you didn't even dare to say a word. Are you even a man?"
“Mom, Nana is not just anyone, she is my wife, the mother of my child. A man who hits his own wife is not a real man.”
"I'm still your mother, you unfilial son, you just let your wife beat me?"
Zhang Cheng said sarcastically, "Why would she hit you for no reason? Don't you know how you've treated her all these years?"
Wang Fang said matter-of-factly, "I went through the same thing back then. Now I'm the mother-in-law and she's the daughter-in-law, so she has to listen to me."
“Mom, the Qing Dynasty is long gone, and things are not like they were back then. Nana suffered a lot of grievances after marrying me. If it weren’t for the child, she would have left this family long ago.”
Wang Fang rolled her eyes: "Tch, she's just trying to scare you. Who would want a used woman who's had three kids? She still thinks she's a virgin."
"Didn't you see that even a highly educated woman like Tong Qian, who's getting on in years, is unwanted? Who would want her without you?"
The bedroom door quietly opened a crack.
Zhang Cheng's temple veins throbbed: "Shut up! You just want to see me lose my wife and children, right? I'm begging you, Mom, can you please stop hurting me?"
Her son's words pierced Wang Fang's heart, and she tearfully recounted her accusations:
"You say I harmed you? Who have I lived my whole life for? You married a wife and forgot your mother, you're a heartless ingrate."
here we go again.
Zhang Cheng irritably pulled at his hair, looking like he wanted to die.
Thinking of Tong's mother, who wore a big gold bracelet and looked happy, Wang Fang cried even harder.
"Why is my life so miserable? Look how filial Tong Qian is. She bought her mother a gold bracelet worth 50,000 yuan. I've never even seen a piece of gold."
Zhang Cheng's face grew increasingly grim; the name Tong Qian was nothing short of a nightmare for him.
No child is immune to their parents comparing them to others, even if they are already in their thirties.
From a young age, his mother compared him to Tong Qian, and Tong Qian's excellence made him seem utterly worthless.
Zhang Cheng felt extremely wronged. He was just an ordinary person who had tried his best, but unfortunately, he was not cut out for studying.
After he grew up, he didn't steal or rob. He earned money with his own hands to support his mother, wife, and children. What did he do wrong?
Zhang Cheng roared, "I'm not as good as Tong Qian. I can't compete with her in studies, and I can't compete with her in making money. I'm just a good-for-nothing. Didn't you already know that?"
Wang Fang also roared, "That's right, you're a piece of trash, you can't even compare to a little girl, and you make me lose face in front of Li Shuhui."
"We're both single mothers who've lost our husbands, so why does she get to wear gold and live a good life while I have to eat chaff and be looked down upon?"
Zhang Cheng: "Isn't that your own doing? If we only had one daughter, Qianqian, our family wouldn't be doing badly. Who can you blame?"
Wang Fang felt even more aggrieved: "Isn't it all your fault that your wife's womb is not cooperating? If she had given birth to a boy as her first child, would I have had to do that?"
"I've been taking care of your child day and night for the past few years, I've aged so much, and you still blame me? Why is my life so miserable?"
Zhang Cheng felt like he was suffocating. He gave up trying to communicate, left Wang Fang alone in the living room, and went back to his room.
Soon after, the sound of a man wailing came from the room.
The next day, while her daughter-in-law was taking the child to get vaccinated, Wang Fang secretly took her gold jewelry.
The three gold pieces were all bought before the wedding, and they weighed very little, totaling less than 20,000 yuan.
Wang Fang went to a jewelry store and used her daughter-in-law's three gold pieces to exchange for a similar gold bracelet for herself.
It looks about the same width as the mother's, but it's actually hollow.
After putting on the gold bracelet, Wang Fang finally felt less choked up.
Standing on the street, she dialed a number on her old-fashioned mobile phone and spoke enthusiastically to the person on the other end:
"Old Hu, I'd like to introduce your son to someone, Li Shuhui's daughter, Tong Qian."
"Twenty-nine years old, tall and long-legged, never been with a man, clean and tidy, and a graduate student, earning hundreds of thousands a year."
"Afraid she won't want to be with your son? Don't worry, I'll give you a tip that will guarantee she'll obediently go home with your son."
More than ten kilometers away in an urban village, Lao Hu hung up the phone and excitedly ran into his son's room.
"Gangzi, Dad has found you a good wife. You'll be extremely satisfied."
In the dimly lit room, with the curtains drawn tightly, a gloomy and pale man sat in a chair, an obscene video playing on the computer in front of him.
The man replied listlessly, "Don't lie to me. I've killed people, been to jail, and am disabled. What woman would want to be with me?"
"Dad didn't lie to you, it's true. Your Aunt Wang even sent you the photos, look."
The man took his father's phone, and the moment he saw the photo, his pupils contracted sharply.
That face, that intellectual air…
She looks just like the woman who betrayed him back then!
The man licked his lips, and a slow smile spread across his face.
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