Chapter 1 Returns to

Jiang City in August 1990, a small southern town in midsummer.

The sun was setting in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun was shining on the earth. It had rained for two days in a row, so the weather was cooler.

Nan Jingyi came straight to Gu's house after get off work to find her husband Gu Qiang, ready to have a good talk with him.

"Gu Qiang, why are you leaving right after I come back?" Gu Qiang was about to go out, but she couldn't help but speak.

"I have to go out and do some errands now. I'll talk about it tomorrow if I have anything else." Gu Qiang had just returned from get off work and put on brand new leather shoes and a black short-sleeved shirt.

In the past three months, he often came home late after get off work every day, either working overtime or attending meetings, and kept his cell phone in his hand all day long. The woman's sixth sense had already made Nan Jingyi guess that something was going on.

Nan Jingyi was angry, "Gu Qiang! We have been together for more than ten years! Why is this happening?"

"Tomorrow, I really don't have time tonight." Gu Qiang pushed her away impatiently.

Tears began to well up in Nan Jingyi's eyes and she clenched her fists.

Gu Qiang didn't even want to look at her, "If you want to wait, just wait until I come back in the evening!" After saying that, he left without looking back. He only heard the roar of the motorcycle downstairs gradually disappearing.

"Gu Qiang! Gu Qiang!"

Nan Jingyi sat on the ground in despair.

Nan Jingyi met Gu Qiang when she was eighteen years old. They have been in love for six years and married for ten years. It has been sixteen years now. She is 34 years old this year and Gu Qiang is 38 years old.

The two had no children. Nan Jingyi was pregnant once when she was 23 years old, because she was still young and did not want children at the time.

Later, she couldn't get pregnant anymore. She spent a lot of money on medical treatment and medicine in the past few years, but her stomach still didn't respond. Her parents-in-law and her husband gradually didn't like her.

There was a click on the door, and it was the mother-in-law and sister-in-law coming back.

Nan Jingyi turned around and wiped her tears secretly, not wanting the Gu family to see her vulnerability.

It was late at night, and Gu Qiang hadn't returned yet. Nan Jingyi fell asleep in a daze. When she opened her eyes again, it was already dawn, but Gu Qiang hadn't returned all night!

Central hospital, surgical ward nurse station.

"Jingyi, why are you in a bad mood today? Why, the couple had a quarrel?" Su Jiali asked with concern.

"It's nothing, I just didn't sleep well last night."

"Forget it! Let me help you prepare the medicine. Jingyi, you go back and rest. You are out of shape, so don't make any mistakes."

"Jiali, thank you, I will pay attention."

Su Jiali is Nan Jingyi's best colleague and best friend. They are both nurses and work in the same surgery department.

"Sister-in-law! Something happened to my brother! Wuwuwu..." In the afternoon, the sister-in-law called with a cry, "My mother asked you to come back quickly."

Nan Jingyi's heart sank.

Last night, Gu Qiang had an argument with someone, and the two sides started fighting. Gu Qiang took advantage of his height of 1.8 meters. During the pull, Gu Qiang pulled out a knife that he carried with him. The other party was fatally stabbed by Gu Qiang.

Later, when Nan Jingyi got home, she heard other people's comments and found out that the accident took place by the lake in the park in the middle of the street. Gu Qiang was with a woman at the time.

After putting down the phone, she asked for leave from her director and rushed to Gu's house on her bicycle.

Because Gu Qiang was an only child, in order to take care of the elderly, she and Gu Qiang lived in the Gu family instead of buying a house to live alone. For this reason, her mother was not happy at first.

When a daughter gets married and has no house, the bride price is only 2,000 yuan. The bride price represents the attitude of her husband's family.

Although the bride price was small, because the daughter was willing, the mother also acquiesced.

The Gu family, a family of four, has a small house. At this moment, it is packed with people. Several of Gu Qiang's close classmates and friends are here.

In the room, some sighed, some cried, and some comforted.

"Old man, what are we going to do! Why did Gu Qiang kill someone! There must be a mistake! Old man, we have to save Gu Qiang! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuancy..."

The one sobbing was the mother-in-law, a fat woman in her sixties. The woman, Gu Zhenzhu, supported her mother with a frown.

"Alas! What do you know! The other party is powerful, and now my son is involved in a life-threatening lawsuit! What can I do?" The father-in-law looked sad, as if he was much older.

The Gu family is a working-class family, with a son and a daughter who are the darlings of him and his wife. Although their family background is average, they have been cared for since childhood, and their children have never suffered at all.

Gu's father and mother were busy contacting relatives who were officials, and Gu Qiang's friends were busy calling friends who worked in the court to find out where the person was being held and find someone to take care of him... The Gu family was already in chaos.

Seeing Nan Jingyi come in, Gu's mother held her daughter-in-law's hand tightly, "Jingyi, it's Gu Qiang's fault. He's confused. I'm sorry for you... Well, he also discussed work matters with his colleagues, didn't he?" He just got out...you forgive him, he needs you at this time."

Gu's mother changed from her usual cold attitude, her face was full of pity and flattery, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw.

"Xiaonan, let him go. Qiangzi is sorry for you, and I apologize to you on his behalf." The father-in-law was angry and anxious, and his hands were shaking slightly.

One of the old couple is a good person, and the other is a bad person. In fact, their purpose is to hold Nan Jingyi back, and they even plan to continue to deceive her.

Nan Jingyi listened to the whispers of others and thought about the scene when the incident happened... her whole body was cold.

Just yesterday, the two parents-in-law ignored Nan Jingyi.

Suddenly, her son hooked up with a married woman and even killed her, and she suddenly became a hot commodity.

"His dad, what if our son is in jail now and has no wife when he comes out? Which girl is willing to marry him?"

Before Nan Jingyi came back, the old couple had discussed that she could not divorce our son.

Nan Jingyi looked at the people around her. Some were hesitant to speak, some were understanding, and some were sympathetic. She felt that she was ridiculous.

My husband did something like this! While dating other women, this woman is still a married woman!

How ironic! At the beginning, so many people were pursuing me but they didn't want to, so they blindly looked for this scumbag.

At this moment, she was about to cry without tears, regretting her past.

Nan Jingyi sat silently for a long time, and used the excuse of going to work to escape from the suffocating house.

She doesn’t know how she returned to her parents’ home. She only remembers her mother-in-law’s nose and tears when she left, her father-in-law’s hatred, and her sister-in-law’s evasive eyes.

Usually, when there is delicious food and drink, my mother-in-law always hides it and gives it to my sister-in-law secretly, and she never gets a share.

Even though Nan Jingyi poured out her heart and soul, she still couldn't feel a trace of warmth in this home.

This snobbish and hypocritical family wanted to drag her down when something happened to their son.

Nan Jingyi returned to her parents' house and lay on the bed, not wanting to turn on the light. She needed to think carefully.

"Jingyi is back, why don't you turn on the light? Have you eaten?" Zheng Juan opened the door to her daughter's room and touched her forehead.

Zheng Juan was very happy when her daughter came back. My daughter was very strange today. She didn't know what was going on, so Zheng Juan couldn't ask more questions.

"Mom, I'm not hungry. I want to go to bed early. You can eat first."

Looking at her mother's hunched back, her eyes felt hot and the tip of her nose felt sore. The thing she felt most sorry for was her mother, whom she depended on for life.

Stepfather Nan Jiangcheng ate his meal indifferently, without raising his head. Everything around him had nothing to do with him.

It seems that Zheng Juan still doesn’t know what happened, and Nan Jingyi neither dares nor can say anything.

At first, Zheng Juan disapproved of her falling in love with Gu Qiang.

The Nan family is a combined family. Stepfather Nan Jiangcheng takes his two sons Nan Hui and Nan Tian, ​​and Zheng Juan takes Jing Yi.

Zheng Juan is an honest and simple woman. When Jingyi was 8 or 9 years old, her patriarchal ex-husband cheated on her mistress. After the mistress became pregnant, her ex-husband was obsessed with having a son. He punched and kicked Zheng Juan every day, forcing her to She is divorced.

In order to take her daughter away from her ex-husband forever, after being introduced by someone, Zheng Juan remarried and took her daughter out of that small town.

She has little relationship with her current husband.

Nanjiang Cheng is a selfish and domineering person. He takes his own money very seriously, and the husband and wife's money is kept separate.

Because she experienced family changes in her childhood, Nan Jingyi has a quiet and introverted personality.

At the beginning, Zheng Juan hoped that her daughter would find a son-in-law with education and ability, so that she and her daughter would be proud in front of her husband, but her daughter was willful and disobedient.

Gu Qiang only has a high school education and is an ordinary worker in the factory.

Compared with Nan Jingyi's two older brothers, Nan Hui and Nan Tian, ​​Gu Qiang is very different. Nan Hui is a graduate student from a prestigious university in Haicheng, and Nan Tian is also a graduate from a university in the province.

The son-in-law couldn't do it, and Zheng Juan couldn't stand up in front of her husband.

Before her daughter got married, Zheng Juan found out that her daughter's mother-in-law was strong and domineering, and that Gu Zhenzhu was not an economical person. If her daughter married such a mother-in-law and sister-in-law, she would definitely suffer in the future.

Alas, my daughter didn’t listen to my advice at first!

After Nan Jingyi and Gu Qiang met, she rejected suitors one after another, including many outstanding boys.

She regretted taking the wrong path, she hated herself for being blind, she hated herself for disobeying her mother, she hated her mother who was dependent on each other and worried about her, she hated the father who abandoned their mother and daughter, she hated the mistress who seduced her father... …!

If her parents had not divorced and she had grown up in a happy family, her life trajectory would have been completely different, right?

Nan Jingyi shed tears and prayed silently in her heart. She must live a good life in the next life! I want my mother to live a good life together...

A ray of sunshine in the early morning shines on the bedside.

Nan Jingyi opened her sleepy eyes and recalled yesterday's messy events in her mind. She couldn't help but sigh and got up to wash up.

"Eh! No! Where is this?" She sat on the bed and looked around, feeling an unreal feeling coming over her.

Everything changed overnight!

The room was filled with familiar yet unfamiliar furnishings, "This... this is actually my old house! The old house before moving!"

Nan Jingyi couldn't believe it. She jumped up and looked out the window at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment. She was shocked!

Picking up the calendar on the bedside, today is actually October 29, 1990!

She was reborn sixteen years ago!

She just celebrated her 18th birthday now.