Summary
The moment the rocks came crashing down, my elder brother and my husband both lunged to shield my sister-in-law.
I couldn’t get out of the way. The falling rocks crushed my legs, leaving me partly disabled.
They were consumed by guilt. My sister-in-law blamed herself, too.
Only then did I finally understand.
The woman my husband had loved for years—the one who had already married someone else—was my sister-in-law.
Together, they had kept me in the dark.
After the injury, I lost the riding skills I’d once been so proud of. I could no longer fly a kite.
My husband tended to me himself, day and night.
He would stroke my cheek and ask, afraid of losing me, “Awu, you’re the only one in my heart now. Do you still love me?”
Then he’d kiss me before I could answer.
I didn’t survive the tenth year of that sorrowful life.
When I opened my eyes again, it was the day Xie Nanyi came to ask for my hand.












