During his time as a sent-down youth, Hou Pinxuan met Zhao Liping, the village beauty of Taoli Village, and the two fell in love at first sight.
Two years later, Hou Pinxuan's family used their connections to get him back to the city. By this time, Zhao Liping was already pregnant, but neither of them knew it.
Hou Pinxuan firmly said that he would come back to pick her up, and Zhao Liping believed him.
A few months later, Zhao Liping discovered she was pregnant. In order not to affect the marriages of her nephews and nieces, she moved out of the house on her own, despite her family's objections.
She lived in a thatched hut built with the help of her parents and brothers for twenty years.
Zhao Liping gave birth to her son Zhao Siyuan with great difficulty, sent him to school, taught him principles, and the two depended on each other for survival.
Twenty years passed, but that person never returned.
Zhao Liping, however, was already exhausted and died when her son was twenty years old.
On her deathbed, she was filled with resentment. The promise to stay together until old age, the promise to only take a sip from the vast ocean of love—all of it had come to nothing.
In the end, she was left alone to bear the gossip and rumors of the world. The social atmosphere of that era was not open, and she raised her son alone, enduring countless hardships and grievances.
But in the end, that man had a beautiful wife in his arms, held a high position, and was living a very glamorous life.
She breathed her last with resentment, her only concern being her son. Before she died, she asked her son to find his biological father.
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Rewind to twenty years ago. After Hou Pinxuan returned to the city, he was transferred to work in a public institution. He told his parents about his girlfriend in the countryside.
However, his parents strongly opposed it. In order to force him to sever ties with the countryside, they even intercepted his letters and forged a breakup letter.
In the letter, Zhao Liping claimed that she had married a good man and hoped that from now on, birds and fish would not go their separate ways and would never meet again.
Hou Pinxuan was heartbroken and couldn't believe it.
Finally, under his mother's renewed threat of suicide, he agreed to the arranged marriage and married the daughter of a bureau chief.
They treated each other with respect after marriage. Five years later, he was promoted to staff member. Ten years later, he was promoted to deputy director. Fifteen years later, he was officially promoted to director, becoming the head of the unit.
By this time, he had a son and a daughter, a harmonious family, and successful children, making him a winner in life.
But when the night was quiet, he would always think of the girl from that small mountain village.
Lively and adorable, quiet and elegant, clever and mischievous, gentle and considerate, shy and timid...
It was all her; it was a deeply unforgettable relationship, one I could never forget.
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After Zhao Liping's death, Zhao Siyuan looked at his biological father's information and felt waves of hatred in his heart.
Since she's doing so well, why doesn't she come back for a visit? She doesn't ask him to accept her, she just asks him to treat her mother better.
Unfortunately, his mother still thought of him before she died, and he would never acknowledge him in this life.
Zhao Liping has raised her son very well. She not only taught him to read, but also taught him a set of boxing techniques left by Hou Pinxuan.
Whether it was talent or not, he mastered this set of boxing techniques through sheer hard work and practice, even without any formal instruction.
On his uncle's recommendation, Zhao Siyuan joined the army. He started as a private and gradually rose through the ranks to become a squad leader, company commander, platoon leader, and battalion commander.
When he was twenty-three, Zhao Siyuan secured a place to study at the National Defense University.
After graduating, he chose to go to Chiayi City, the city where his biological father, Hou Pinxuan, lived.
After meeting, Zhao Siyuan observed Hou Pinxuan and found that he was a very upright person with commendable character, not as bad as he had imagined.
After repeated attempts to protect him, he finally forgave Hou Pinxuan, and the two were able to reunite.
By chance, Zhao Siyuan offended a gangster boss named Scarface. It was Hou Pinxuan who risked his life to break into the club and rescue him.
Therefore, Scarface set his sights on Hou Pinxuan, but since he couldn't get anywhere with him, he turned his attention to Hou's family.
Hou Pinxuan's wife, Xiao Li, was completely unaware of this. She went about her usual routine of buying groceries and cooking dinner, but tonight was a little different.
She waited for a long time, but the children did not return. She called her husband, Hou Pinxuan, but he did not come because he was training with Zhao Siyuan.
Three days later, the two children were found in an abandoned warehouse. The daughter, Hou Yiqin, had been murdered and her death was gruesome.
The son, Hou Yihua, was curled up in a ball, twitching from time to time, and listless, clearly showing the aftereffects of a drug overdose.
Xiao Li fainted on the spot; she couldn't accept that her child had turned out this way.
Hou Yihua was sent to a drug rehabilitation center, where he spent a difficult six months.
Xiao Li endured the pain of losing her daughter, but now her son still needed her.
Xiao Li often visited Hou Yihua, and whenever she saw her son tied to the bed and injected with sedatives; when the drugs took effect, his whole body convulsed, and he screamed hysterically.
Her heart was breaking, and she was so pained that she wished she could take his place and bear all the suffering for him.
When Hou Yihua finally came out, he was completely unrecognizable.
Not only did she lose so much weight that she weighed only 70 or 80 pounds, but she was also extremely listless and her whole being was ruined.
Xiao Li stayed with her son at all times, fearing that something might happen to him.
However, one rainy night, Hou Yihua experienced a drug withdrawal and lost control, jumping off the roof of his house.
When Xiao Li saw this scene, she completely broke down.
Her mental state became extremely unstable. Hou Pinxuan was busy with work and only hired a nanny to take care of her, who would visit her occasionally.
Upon hearing these events, Zhao Siyuan immediately understood that it was his fault that his biological father's children had died. He felt deeply ashamed and frequently visited Hou Pinxuan to comfort him.
Sometimes he would look at Xiao Li with a guilty expression.
Xiao Li mistook him for Hou Yihua, and he didn't deny it; instead, he went along with it and called her "Mom."
During a heart-to-heart talk between the father and son, Xiao Li was unusually clear-headed, and she brought them some washed grapes.
But he overheard that Scarface had targeted his family because of Zhao Siyuan, and that Zhao Siyuan had even called Hou Pinxuan "Dad".
Xiao Li went completely mad. She couldn't accept that her husband had cheated on her, that she had lost her son and daughter, and that she had been deceived in the end. She had poured her heart out to an illegitimate child, only to find out that he was the root of all her troubles.
She laughed and cried at the same time, and went to the spot on the top floor where her son had jumped. Moments later, she jumped herself...
"Xiaohua, Xiaoqin, I'm here! Wait for me!"
Hou Pinxuan lost his son, daughter, and wife, and he became all alone, but he never remarried.
After retiring, he helped Zhao Siyuan become the bureau chief and then enjoyed his retirement.
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This time, Xiao Li became Hou Pinxuan's wife, Xiao Li.
The original owner of this body lost the will to live. Her wish was to save her son and daughter and stay away from Hou Pinxuan.
The "white moonlight" thing is disgusting. If you love someone, just lock them up. Why ruin their life?
Xiao Li arrived neither early nor late.
At this time, Zhao Siyuan had already arrived in Chiayi City and had just started working at a public institution.
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