Volume One, Chapter One: A Losing Hand from the Start
“Shameless harlot, you brazen seductress! How dare you run off with a man from outside!”
Su Wanyue had barely come to her senses when a sharp slap landed across her face.
She hadn’t even reacted in time; her body swayed, and her forehead struck a large stone on the riverbank, blood immediately staining the rock.
“Ouch…”
The sharp pain in her head made Su Wanyue groan involuntarily.
“Just wait till I’m done with you today; you’ll be begging for mercy!” The woman’s voice was full of triumph as she watched Su Wanyue being beaten and injured.
A barrage of curses poured relentlessly into Su Wanyue’s ears…
Rubbing her forehead, her long lashes fluttered lightly as her vision gradually focused.
She slowly lifted her head, weakly looking toward the woman who was firing insults like a machine gun—a middle-aged, overweight woman, her face burning with fury.
Who was this woman?
And where exactly was she now?
“Zetao’s mother, let’s talk this through calmly first, please don’t resort to violence…”
Just as Su Wanyue was still dazed, a short man suddenly jumped out from behind the heavyset woman.
“What’s there to discuss with such a shameless woman! She used tricks to marry my son just days ago, and now she can’t even stay faithful—running off with some wild man! She’s disgraced the entire Lu family!”
The middle-aged woman’s face flushed crimson, her eyes filled with rage, her chest heaving like storm-tossed waves.
Judging by her stance, if someone hadn’t held her back, she would have surely fought Su Wanyue to the death.
“I bet you’re just blinded by her looks, that’s why you’re defending her!”
Zhao Guihua’s words barely fell when the surrounding crowd began to jeer.
“She’s just playing you men for fools with her pretty face—a seductress, a tramp!”
“Exactly! All show and no substance! If she hadn’t deliberately exposed herself to Dr. Lu back then, causing a scene at the county hospital and blackmailing him with her reputation, do you think he would’ve married her?”
“Married for only a few days, and she’s already sneaking off with her childhood sweetheart. Tell me, if that’s not despicable, then what is? Truly shameless!”
…
As the crowd gossiped and pointed fingers, the original memories flooded Su Wanyue’s mind all at once.
Just as they said, the original woman had used disgraceful means to force Lu Zetao into marriage.
Lu Zetao was the most promising young man in Caixia Village—handsome beyond compare, he had been admitted to the city’s best medical university and, upon graduating, secured a stable job at the county hospital, holding a guaranteed position that promised a lifetime of comfort.
Women lined up from one end of the village to the other, desperate to marry him!
Yet, somehow, a woman like Su Wanyue had cunningly taken advantage of him, sparking the resentment of others.
Especially the middle-aged heavyset woman before her—Zhao Guihua, her mother-in-law—who had been hoping Lu Zetao would marry a wealthy young lady to bring honor to the family name…
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