After getting married, Jiang Hong discovered that Meng Qiang's usual image was only for outsiders, but he revealed his true colors as soon as he got home. Moreover, he had a bad temper and would often get angry at her.
After getting married, all the tenderness and affection between the two disappeared.
She felt she couldn't take it anymore and wanted to make a scene, but Meng Qiang beat her up!
After being beaten the first time, Jiang Hong felt she couldn't take it anymore and ran back to her parents' home. But Meng Qiang immediately followed her there with gifts, kneeling down and apologizing, which made her family think she was being unreasonable.
In addition, Meng Qiang is good at putting on an act; he would visit his wife's family with gifts during holidays, which made his wife's family feel very honored.
After several such incidents, everyone felt that Meng Qiang was a good person and no longer believed her. They thought it was all her fault and instead helped Meng Qiang teach her a lesson, leaving her with no way to express her grievances.
She happened to be pregnant at that time, so she gritted her teeth and endured it.
After Jiang Hong became pregnant, Meng Qiang stopped hitting her and treated her better. Just when she thought he would change for the better after having a child, everything changed back after she gave birth to her daughter...
Meng Qiang was extremely sexist and always wanted a son, but she gave birth to four daughters in a row.
After failing to give birth to a son four times in a row, Meng Qiang looked down on Jiang Hong even more and intensified his beatings and verbal abuse. Coupled with frequent childbirths and poor postpartum care, she was unable to have children anymore.
Meanwhile, in order to have a son, Meng Qiang had an affair with a widow, and they had been having an affair for quite some time.
It's just that because of his consistently good public image, no one knew this.
According to Jiang Hong, Meng Qiang did indeed return around 10 a.m. on the day he died.
However, because he had been drinking and was intoxicated, he felt that she had influenced his son when he came back and saw her, so he beat her again, and his daughters, who were woken up by the beating and scolding, also suffered.
For her daughter's sake, she fought back for the first time, but the result was an even worse beating. She was only freed after Meng Qiang had finished beating her and left in a huff...
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Su He never expected to hear such an outcome, nor did she expect that Meng Qiang, whom the neighbors described as honest, was actually like this behind closed doors.
"Then why didn't you tell the truth before and instead lied to people!"
Jiang Hong gave a bitter smile upon hearing this, "How could I possibly say something like this? Even if I hate Meng Qiang, I still have to think about my daughter. I don't want anyone to know that they have a father like this."
Su He accepted her reason, after all, in this era, background and reputation were equally important.
But Captain Yu quickly realized the problem with her words.
"You mean Meng Qiang left after arguing with you? Around what time was that?"
"It should be before eleven o'clock, but I'm not quite sure. I don't have a watch at home," Jiang Hong said after thinking for a moment.
"Where do you think he could have gone? And why did he die at his doorstep? Did he die when he went out?"
Jiang Hong shook her head. "I don't know. I guess he probably wanted to go to his lover's place. He used to go there often, but he never stayed overnight. He would usually be back before midnight. As for when he collapsed there, I don't know."
"So you mean he went there?" Captain Yu asked thoughtfully.
Jiang Hong shook her head again. "I don't know."
"Then why did you go out at midnight? He hit you, and you still care whether he comes back or not?"
Hearing this, Jiang Hong lowered her head. Su He didn't know what she was thinking, and then she saw Jiang Hong raise her head and give a bitter smile.
“I’m used to it. Over the years, he has beaten me so badly that I’ve lost my sense of self. Before, no matter what time he came home, I couldn’t sleep because I had to prepare hot water for him to wash his feet. Otherwise, he wouldn’t care whether I was asleep or not, and he would beat me again.”
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