Jiang Yao never thought that one day she would end up in prison.
Those cold iron bars were like the mouth of a ruthless beast, completely devouring her freedom.
When she was first imprisoned, she was filled with anger, resentment and hatred.
She felt that fate was unfair to her. Why was she imprisoned here while Jiang Zhi could enjoy a happy life outside and have Shen Qingchen's wholehearted love?
She often paced back and forth in her cell, constantly thinking about the past.
At the beginning, she was still unwilling to admit the mistakes she had made.
She felt that she was just pursuing what she wanted, that love was inherently selfish, and that she was just using the wrong means.
However, as time went by, the regular and monotonous life in prison gradually brought about some different changes in her heart.
Life in prison is extremely boring. There is a fixed schedule every day: get up, work, study, and rest.
At first, Jiang Yao was full of resistance to these arrangements.
She deliberately slacked off while working and was absent-minded while studying.
However, her attitude did not bring her any benefits. Instead, it attracted criticism from prison guards and dissatisfaction from her cellmates.
Her cellmate was a middle-aged woman who had been in prison for several years for economic crimes.
At the beginning, Jiang Yao was full of hostility towards this cellmate, thinking that she must be a bad person.
However, this cellmate did not treat Jiang Yao the same way Jiang Yao treated her.
Once, Jiang Yao was in a bad mood while working and started to do her job half-heartedly, which affected the entire team's work.
The prison guard severely criticized Jiang Yao, but Jiang Yao still talked back. At this time, her cellmate stood up, apologized to the prison guard on her behalf, and promised to help Jiang Yao complete the task as soon as possible.
Jiang Yao was surprised by her cellmate's behavior. She didn't understand why this woman wanted to help her.
During the break that night, the inmates talked to her for a long time.
Her cellmate told her that when he first came in, he was just like her, full of resentment and dissatisfaction, and felt that the whole world had wronged him.
However, as time went by, she gradually realized that she had to take responsibility for her own mistakes, and only when she truly reflected and changed from the bottom of her heart could she be reborn.
The words of his cellmate were like a small stone thrown into Jiang Yao's originally calm but muddy inner lake.
From then on, Jiang Yao began to try to take life in prison seriously.
While working, she tried her best to do as required. Although her hands were delicate and she had never done such rough work before, she gritted her teeth and persevered.
She found that when she devoted herself to her work, the restlessness and resentment in her heart would gradually decrease.
While studying, she also began to listen attentively to courses on legal knowledge and moral cultivation.
She heard many cases similar to her own. After committing crimes, those people not only hurt others, but also eventually put themselves in an irretrievable situation.
As Jiang Yao studied this knowledge more deeply, she began to reflect on everything she had done to Jiang Zhi.
She remembered that she had deliberately said bad things about Jiang Zhi in front of Shen Qingchen, trying to destroy their relationship; she remembered the little tricks she had done in secret, which brought so much trouble and danger to Jiang Zhi.
She suddenly realized how bad her behavior was.
Jiang Zhi had never hurt herself on her own initiative, but out of jealousy, she kept attacking her like a mad demon.
This process of reflection was painful, like a sharp knife cutting into her heart.
She often tossed and turned at night, unable to fall asleep, and the mistakes she had made kept playing in her mind like a movie.
She would suddenly wake up from her dream, covered in cold sweat. Jiang Zhi's sad and innocent eyes in her dream made her feel extremely guilty.
In addition to the influence of fellow inmates and their own reflection, the prison occasionally holds some psychological counseling activities.
These activities are hosted by professional psychological counselors and aim to help prisoners adjust their mindsets and better face their crimes and future lives.
Jiang Yao was also skeptical about these activities at first. She felt that these so-called psychological counselors were just going through the motions and could never understand her inner thoughts.
However, during a psychological counseling activity called "Facing Your Inner Self", Jiang Yao's thoughts changed.
The psychologist asked everyone to close their eyes and imagine themselves standing in front of a mirror. The person in the mirror was their true self, without any disguise.
Jiang Yao closed her eyes, and the image that emerged in her mind was an image of herself with a distorted face, full of jealousy and hatred.
She was startled by this image, and the voice of the psychologist sounded at this time, guiding her to think about the reasons for the formation of this image.
Jiang Yao silently answered the counselor's questions in her heart. She found that the reason she became like this was because of her inner inferiority and insecurity.
She has lived in a comparative environment since she was a child, always feeling that she is not good enough and always wanting to be recognized by others.
When she saw Jiang Zhi had what she wanted, the jealousy grew wildly like weeds and eventually controlled her entire body and mind.
Through this psychological counseling activity, Jiang Yao gained a deeper understanding of her own inner self.
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