If he could turn back time, he would never have let her suffer so much...
The stick continued to strike, each blow feeling like a blow to his heart.
Finally, the brigade leader arrived, ending this farce.
As a result of the beating, Xiao Suli stayed in bed for a week.
Before she had fully recovered, Su Guoqiang accused her of being dramatic.
Such a minor injury required so much rest, causing my family to be unable to eat properly for the past few days.
So a week later, despite Su Li still being weak, he made her do laundry, cook, and housework again.
No one cared that she was panting heavily while working, and that she almost fell into the water several times while washing clothes. No one cared that she was dizzy and nearly fainted while cooking.
Su Mu slapped himself hard across the face, but it didn't hurt at all, because he was in a dream!
He began to hate himself, wondering why he hadn't seen these things before.
She was already having a very difficult life.
The dream shifted again, this time in a timeline where Su Li was twenty years old.
She's grown up, and so has he.
How come he hadn't noticed before that Su Li was so thin, that a gust of wind could almost blow her away?
As he grew into a teenager, he began to look down on the older sister who had raised him. Instead, he would always ask Su Jiaojiao to come along with him, no matter what he was doing.
Su Li watched his gaze gradually shift from joy to sadness, but he never noticed. Or perhaps he did see it, but simply didn't care at the time.
He saw himself acting like a jerk towards Su Li, saying, "You're used to doing rough work, so give your job to Sister Jiao Jiao and go to the countryside in her place, otherwise you're not my sister."
He only understands the look in Su Li's eyes now.
It was a look of utter despair and heartbreak; her beloved younger brother, whom she had raised single-handedly, looked down on her so much.
How much pain she must be in!
"Bastard, bastard!"
Su Mu cursed her dream self in a fit of despair, looking at her younger self and saying, "Stop talking, stop talking..."
But the scene in the dream continued; "Sister, did you hear that? Someone as talented as you should go to the countryside. Jiaojiao is prettier and more educated than you. What if she gets bullied by those lecherous men in the countryside? You're different. You have nothing. Even if you get bullied, it doesn't matter. You can just marry him. That way, your life's most important matter will be solved at the same time."
Su Mu cried uncontrollably, but she couldn't change anything in her dream.
His merciless words back then were like sharp swords, piercing Su Li's heart and wounding him now as well.
He watched helplessly as Su Li fainted upon hearing these words.
He slapped himself across the face several more times; "Su Mu, you're not human, you're not human! How could you treat the sister who raised you like this..."
The dream shifted again, this time she was finally going to the countryside.
At first, she was indeed quite capable, and with her own skills, she earned work points that barely allowed her to fill her stomach.
But the good times didn't last long, and Su Jiaojiao wrote a letter to her cousin.
Her cousin and Su Li went to the same rural area. He watched as Su Jiaojiao's cousin, Li Liang, tricked Su Li into going to the reed marshes.
An ugly man was waiting for her there.
His heart leaped into his throat; "Please, God, don't let anything happen to her."
Even knowing it was a dream, Su Mu still prayed.
Perhaps God heard his words, because Su Li was rescued.
But the matter didn't end there. A few days later, a young educated youth named Lin Zhaodi brought her a cup of brown sugar water with something spiked on it.
Su Mu stood beside her, but unfortunately she couldn't see him. He shouted loudly, "Don't drink it, don't drink it!"
Unfortunately, Su Li couldn't hear or see anything. She even thanked Lin Zhaodi, saying, "Thank you, Zhaodi. I'll treat you to some brown sugar next time I buy it."
Su Mu watched helplessly as she drank the brown sugar water, and then Lin Zhaodi and Li Liang took her to Niu Tieguang's bed.
He watched helplessly as Su Li was violated.
He screamed frantically, "No! No! Let her go!"
But nothing could be changed. It was all his fault. If he hadn't forced her to go to the countryside, she wouldn't have gone through all this.
He hated himself. Why did he always side with Su Jiaojiao when she was clearly his own sister?
He watched as Su Li was violated, and Li Liang called people to catch her in the act of adultery. Helpless, he married that scumbag.
Seeing that Niu Tieguang beat and scolded her every day, and that she had endless chores to do, she seemed to have gotten even thinner.
When Niu Tieguang's mother saw that she had given birth to a daughter, she spat at her, saying, "A lowly woman gives birth to a lowly woman."
He then brought over a chamber pot and, in front of Su Li who had just given birth, said, "Girls, watch closely! Don't be born into our family again, or this will be your fate." With that, he placed the child into the chamber pot...
Su Li screamed shrilly, "She's just a child! Please let her go. I promise I'll give you a son in the future. Please let her go."
But no matter how much Su Li screamed, she couldn't stop the child from drowning.
Su Mu didn't dare to look. How could there be such a wicked person in the world?
How could they treat her like this?
When her child died, Su Li's heart died with it. She was in a daze every day until she became pregnant again.
She lived in constant fear, worried that she was carrying a girl.
She wanted to run away, but by then the country had opened up, and she no longer needed a letter of introduction to go anywhere.
But she had no money and couldn't go anywhere.
One day, a movie projectionist came to the village. He noticed that she was having a hard time surviving there and learned about her situation.
He approached her and said he could take her away; nowadays, as long as you have hands, you're not afraid of hard work. You can go into business or work, and you can support yourself no matter what.
Su Mu saw this scene in her dream, and a glimmer of hope appeared in her eyes.
I hope she can escape from here and start anew.
With her intelligence and competence, he knew that as long as she left these people, she could definitely support herself.
On the day she was to leave, Su Li secretly stole ten yuan from home. She thought that since the other party had already agreed to take her away, she couldn't use other people's money no matter what.
So this money was stolen from Niu Tieguang.
She arrived at the agreed place, but waited and waited and no one came.
Su Mu was also anxious. Why didn't that person come? Why didn't they take her away?
She waited there for an hour, but the man never came.
But instead, Niu Tieguang and his mother arrived.
Without saying a word, he slapped Su Li across the face; "You slut, you really want to run off with some random man? Are you disappointed that you can't wait for him? You whore, I serve you every day and it's not enough, you're always thinking about other men."
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