"Don't think you can just hide in the hospital. Get up and go to work in the factory. Your nephew needs money for school!"
"Because of the scandal you caused, the Fu family came to our house and asked us to return the betrothal money. You have to find a way to solve it yourself!"
"Don't play dead here with us. Ji Huaizhi is so rich, why don't you open your legs and ask him for money?"
Li Yang was lying on the hospital bed. Tortured by advanced cancer, she was too weak to speak. Her skinny body was being pulled and bumped against the iron bed, but she was like a puppet, lifeless.
She raised her eyelashes and looked at these so-called relatives, who all looked like they wanted to skin her alive to vent their hatred, and she forced a mocking smile.
They have exploited her all her life, and even now that she is about to die, they are still unwilling to let her go!
Thinking of this, she felt grief-stricken and a mouthful of blood spurted out of her throat, spilling onto the white hospital bed.
When everyone saw this, someone cried out in surprise, and as if they were afraid of getting into trouble with something dirty, the hands that were pulling them loosened in an instant, and Li Yang was thrown heavily onto the bed.
Li Yang tilted her head back, gasping for breath. Blood flowed down her cheeks, eyes, and body like red plum blossoms blooming in winter, looking extremely horrifying.
There was so much noise around her that she could no longer hear what they were saying. She kept her eyes wide open, staring at the door.
She said she wanted to eat the dumplings that used to be at the entrance of the alley, and he smiled and agreed to buy them for her.
He said that when the flowers bloom next spring, her illness will be cured, and then he will take her to see the sea...
But she could no longer wait.
In a trance, she seemed to see through the blood-stained eye mask a slender figure appear at the door and walk straight towards her.
The ward fell silent in an instant with the arrival of the newcomer. Li Yang used all his strength to stretch out his hand towards the newcomer, but his hand dropped down in despair the second before their fingertips touched.
At the last moment of her life, she asked herself, if she could live her life over again, would she have the courage to resist the unfair fate and live for herself?
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"I've asked someone about it. Fu Jin not only comes from a wealthy family, but he's also an undergraduate. How many matchmakers have come knocking on his door?
The betrothal gift they give is quite high, so it can be used to give to your brother... Hey, I've told you so much, did you listen to me?"
Li Yang looked at the palm waving in front of him, then looked along the palm to his mother Feng Mei, who looked much younger than he remembered. He was unable to react for a moment.
She looked around the house. It was a familiar blue brick house with dim light. On the wall was an old-fashioned wall clock and a calendar that was mostly torn. The words on the calendar made her eyes widen: 1988!
She stood up slowly, and the stool behind her made a loud noise, which also frightened her.
She asked tremblingly, "I'm not dead?"
Feng Mei looked dissatisfied and reached out to poke her forehead: "What nonsense are you talking about, you damn girl? I'm talking to you about you and Fu Jin, don't yell at me!"
The pain on her forehead brought Li Yang back to consciousness. She was reborn, back to the year Feng Mei forced her to marry Fu Jin! This was also the year her life's tragedy truly began!
That year, his younger brother Lai Yiu-cho injured someone in a fight. The other party's family demanded that their family pay 600 yuan, otherwise they would sue the police station and have Lai Yiu-cho arrested.
Lai Yiu-cho has been the family's golden child since he was young and is lawless. This fight was because of a female classmate at school.
600 yuan was not a small amount of money for an ordinary family in the 1980s. Feng Mei had a savings of 200 to 300 yuan, and she could have borrowed some from relatives.
But she was too proud to lose face. Just as the Fu family was looking for a matchmaker, Feng Mei set her sights on Li Yang.
In fact, Feng Mei knew that Fu Jin only had the reputation of an undergraduate, but he was actually a loner and had some mental problems, so much so that he was still unmarried at the age of 30. However, for the sake of Lai Yaozu, she still hardened her heart and forced her to marry him.
She cried, made a scene, and even went on a hunger strike, but all she got in return was Feng Mei's words: "I've already accepted the betrothal gift. You have to marry me whether you want to or not. If you die, you have to carry your body over!"
Li Yang looked at Feng Mei's face, which was just as harsh and authoritarian as she remembered, and felt extremely disappointed and sad. It was such a "good mother" who, in her previous life, brought her relatives to force her to death at her bedside!
She took a step back and said in a trembling but firm voice, "I won't marry."
"What?" Feng Mei thought she had misheard and couldn't help but ask again, "What did you just say? Who would be willing to give a few hundred yuan as a gift to marry a wife these days? You're so lucky that someone likes you!"
Feng Mei stared at Li Yang with wide eyes. She had bright eyes, a straight nose, pink lips, fair skin, a petite and slender figure, and was gentle and graceful. She was obviously her daughter, but she didn't look like her daughter. Even she found such a thought absurd.
Li Yang took a deep breath and said in a calmer tone than before: "I said, I won't get married."
After confirming that she had heard correctly, Feng Mei immediately became furious: "I worked so hard to raise you, and this is how you treat me? Who am I doing this for? Isn't it for you?
Yaozu is your brother, can you bear to see him get into trouble? Besides, when you get married in the future, you will have a brother who can support you, right? "
Listening to Feng Mei's words, Li Yang just found it funny.
Growing up, everything good in the family belonged to Lai Yiu-cho, while she could only watch from the sidelines. Furthermore, she was instilled with the idea that she must devote herself to her family and Lai Yiu-cho, which led to her suffering her entire life. Even when she was diagnosed with cancer and rushed to the hospital, she was still working overtime all night to earn tuition for Lai Yiu-cho's son!
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