Yungou Village, an eight-story rental house.

On the sixth floor, in the neatly cleaned living room, Hu Ling was sitting on the sofa, carefully wiping a photo frame with a handkerchief.

Embedded in the frame is a well-preserved photograph, slightly yellowed, but not damaged in the slightest.

The photo shows a family of three, and on the left is a tall and thin man holding a baby in his hand, giggling with his mouth wide open. The baby in his arms was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed. On the right is a woman in her twenties, with a pretty and delicate appearance, resting her head on the man's shoulder, holding the man's arm tightly with both hands, and showing a hint of shame on her happy face.

Including the sleeping baby, the faces of all three people seemed to be filled with longing for happiness in the future.

The man on the left is Hu Ling's father, and the man on the right is her mother, and the baby is naturally Hu Ling.

Hu Ling remembers very well that every time she secretly looked at this photo with her mother, her mother would cry.

When she was a child, Hu Ling was ignorant and didn't know why her mother was crying, let alone who the man in the photo was, but it was obvious that this man should not be her father, because she already had a vicious 'father'!

And except for the occasional sneak out to look at it and shed tears, her mother never said anything to her.

After being sensible, Hu Ling was puzzled by her mother's strange behavior, and only after questioning did she know that the man in the photo was her real father, and she finally understood why the vicious man kept scolding her for being a 'wild seed' and the neighbors stopped talking.

Her mother told Hu Ling that her father was a good man, at least, for her mother and son. They originally had a very happy home, and although they lived a poor life, they were happy.

Hu Ling's grandparents passed away very early, and they only had one son, Hu Ling's father, so after Hu Ling's father got married, he regarded Hu Ling's grandparents as his biological parents, and he was extremely filial, and the two old people also regarded him as their own, and the family really enjoyed the joy of family.

Maybe it's God's jealousy, when Hu Ling's mother was pregnant with Hu Ling for six months, Hu Ling's grandmother was suddenly found to have a malignant tumor in her stomach, and the doctor recommended that it be removed in time, which required a large amount of money.

For this reason, although Hu Ling's father gave everything he had and borrowed money everywhere, he still couldn't make up one-third. In desperation, he told Hu Ling's mother to go out and try his luck with distant relatives.

A few days later, he returned, bringing back a large sum of money, so Hu Ling's grandmother's surgery went smoothly and she was discharged from the hospital a month later.

Not long after being discharged from the hospital, Hu Ling's birth once again brought laughter to this poor family, and this photo was taken by Hu Ling's grandparents urging Hu Ling's parents when Hu Ling was full moon.

But when they returned home after taking pictures, they were greeted by several police officers!

It was only then that the family understood what Hu Ling's father had done in the days since he left home.

After the verdict came down, the whole family lost its pillars, and the two old people felt deeply guilty about it, Hu Ling's grandmother had not recovered yet, and could not stand the blow, coupled with deep self-blame, her condition immediately deteriorated, and she died in less than half a year.

Hu Ling's mother, who was breastfeeding, also had to start trying to make a living, although fate and life were cruel, but they had not completely crushed this woman. And Hu Ling's grandfather was not idle, although the imprisonment of his son-in-law and the death of his wife gave him a fatal blow, but looking at his niece and weak and helpless daughter, he had to start picking up scraps to make a living at the age of 50 - because laid-off workers of his age could not find a job at all. After all, they still have a large debt to pay.

However, what they didn't know was that Hu Ling's father had suffered from lymphoma long before the old lady was diagnosed with a malignant tumor, but in order not to worry his family, he had always hidden it from his family, and he knew very well that his illness could not be solved with money!

The reason why he took the risk was that in addition to relieving the pressure on Hu Ling's mother and daughter and the two old people, he also wanted to do his last part. Because, this is the only thing he can do and do before he dies.

In the days he left home, he went out of town and ransacked the financial office of a company.

Afterwards, when the police asked him why he stole the financial office, Hu Ling's father gave this answer: Ordinary people, you can't do it!

After being imprisoned, he endured the pain for nearly two years, and finally left Hu Ling's mother and daughter with a suicide note.

When she got this suicide note, Hu Ling's mother completely collapsed, and her grandfather couldn't afford to be sick and left within a month.

The ensuing blows made Hu Ling's mother confused, and the neighbors sympathized with her plight, and after dealing with all the aftermath, they introduced her to Hu Ling's stepfather, Liang Jianguo, and temporarily found a place to stay for the poor mother and daughter.

Liang Jianguo was in his thirties at that time, and he couldn't find a wife for various reasons, and seeing that he was getting older, he had long since lost too many choices. In this way, he married Hu Ling's mother, who was still in the muddy, back home. Hu Ling's mother is already very beautiful, and men usually like her, so Liang Jianguo treats her well. But for Hu Ling, he is not so good. He always felt that this child was a little ominous, and always thought that it was her birth that brought disaster to the previous family.

Therefore, from the first day Hu Ling's mother entered the Liang family, he hated this little girl from the bottom of his heart.

By the time Hu Ling's mother came back to her senses, she was already pregnant with Liang Jianguo's child. At this time, she had no resistance in the face of fate, and since then, she has been tired of running for her two children.

As Liang Xin grew up, the originally small family couldn't live at all, Liang Jianguo was ruthless, so he simply built a simple shed on the balcony, surrounded the railing, and put a small bed for Hu Ling to live in.

Liang Xin, who has been treated differently since she was a child, under the influence of this environment, her personality is naturally not much better, she has never regarded her sister as a fellow mother, and everything in the family can only be Hu Ling's turn when she doesn't want it.

Although Hu Ling's mother saw it, she didn't want to fight anymore, she just wanted to find a place for her daughter to live for the time being, and wait for her to become an adult. Therefore, she never said anything, and only cried when the mother and daughter were alone.

Pampering and pampering usually do not bring good results, and Liang Xin in adolescence has become even more intense, not only does he not look down on his sister, but even her mother is like a servant. Once she went too far, Hu Ling took action to teach her a lesson, who knew that she was not only unrepentant, but gathered a group of social gangsters to take revenge on her sister.

What's even more outrageous is that once the whole family went out, she took advantage of people's inattention to drug Hu Ling, causing Hu Ling to be in a coma in the wild, and finally was defiled by someone, and even the perpetrator could not be found. After she came back, she also sneered at Hu Ling, and Hu Ling was just nineteen years old at that time!

It was after that time that Hu Ling left this place called 'home', except for coming back to see her mother while her stepfather and Liang Xin were away, she completely disappeared from the sight of the father and daughter.

Hu Ling, who has suffered a lot of humiliation, has understood a truth since he was sensible: there has never been anything in this world that can be relied on, and the only thing that can be relied on is himself!

In fact, Hu Ling, the mother's weakness, did not understand, in her opinion, no matter what it is, you must rely on yourself to fight for it, and there is no way out for forbearance and tolerance. Therefore, in addition to being angry with her mother, she also resents her weakness and can be bullied.

It's a pity that although she knows her mother's past, she can't appreciate all her mother's experiences, so she becomes more and more extreme, and in the end, she becomes a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals!

Hu Ling, who left home, found a job outside, and by chance, she met Luo Yi.

With the deepening of the relationship, she also felt a little pity for this man, for the sake of wealth, the family was separated from morality and intrigue, and his wife took advantage of his absence to get along outside, and the two looked inseparable.

In this way, the two cynics hit it off, and not only became good friends, but also lovers in the end.

In Luo Yi, what Hu Ling got was not money, what she got was respect and pity, and she never reached out to ask Luo Yi for money, although she knew that as long as she opened her mouth, she could have no worries about food and clothing, but she didn't do it. And it is precisely because of this that Luo Yi feels that she is even more precious.

In Hu Ling's opinion, the woman in Luo Yi's family is no longer worthy of being his wife, but because of Luo Yi's image, she has always been forbearing, not wanting to make things bigger, thus damaging Luo Yi's reputation.

Unlike other women, Hu Ling feels that a man's reputation is as important as his life! Therefore, she is always looking for the best solution, and she wants to snatch Luo Yi into her hands through her own efforts.

In fact, there are only two things left in Hu Ling's life: completely getting Luo Yi and revenge on Liang Xin!

It was her obsession to take revenge on Liang Xin, and because she couldn't find a good way, she didn't dare to act rashly, until Luo Yi showed her a magical thing - invisible potion! Once, she pestered Luo Yi into a laboratory and stole three when Luo Yi was not paying attention.

Hu Ling is a very smart person, after stealing it, she immediately threw three test tubes containing other things to the ground and broke them, so Luo Yi never found out.

With this thing in hand, Hu Ling began to implement his plan step by step in order to achieve his goal.

Originally, Hu Ling didn't have any specific plans, just taking one step at a time, but two pieces of news made her plan immediately have the best solution.

One is the city's serial-murder-human-rape-destruction case, and the other is a large report on the safe return of Luo Yi and his wife. The former news gave her a specific plan to retaliate against Liang Xin, but the latter news allowed her to find a way to kill two birds with one stone once and for all.

Especially in the second news, the three people in that large photo deeply pierced Hu Ling's nerves!

Today, Father's Day, I wish all fathers in the world peace and health!

(End of chapter)

(Tianjin)