"Mrs. Chen, you can refuse." Han Ke said in a low voice. "You could have been bold enough to resist, and perhaps it would have been better for you to resist than for you to go against it."

"Yes...... Yes, I have regretted my ignorance all these years, and if I had rejected this marriage at that time, there would have been no tragedy in the future. Mrs. Chen sighed. It's just that I didn't have such courage at that time, I was always afraid of my father, I was a woman, and my patriarchal father didn't look at me much in the first place, and I didn't even dare to say a few more words to him, let alone disobey his orders. ”

Under the cool breeze, Mrs. Chen's figure is so thin, and her pale face no longer has the appearance of yesterday.

"But you know it's painful to be with someone you don't love." For some reason, Han Ke seemed to understand Mrs. Chen's voice very well. "Such compromise and obedience really make no sense."

"You're right, this is a very painful thing, and it's not just my own pain, in the later days I found out that Chen Ming is not only a person I don't like, but also a person I hate, many of his habits, have touched my bottom line, this person has no self-motivation at all, is a real gentleman, he doesn't learn and has no skills, and never even thought that he wants to make money, he has always relied on the resources accumulated by his parents to survive, like a germ attached to the bones." Mrs. Chen lowered her head, regretting and helplessness. "Marriage to him is a nightmare that I will never get away with for the rest of my life."

"But your father values his family, and it doesn't matter what kind of person he is. Is that so? I asked tentatively.

Mrs. Chen gritted her teeth and kept scratching the template under her, making a violent grinding sound, and the blood stains in her nails mixed with the sawdust, making it appear jet black.

"I ...... I soon regretted it, and as I grew older and matured mentally to know what I wanted and what I hated, I began to argue with my father and raise the idea of divorce. ”

I couldn't help but lament that she regretted being late. "But Mrs. Chen, I don't think your father will agree, divorce is a very dangerous thing for your family, once you divorce, your father's career is probably coming to an end. It didn't matter if you didn't get married at the time, and now you get married and divorced, which is probably the last thing your father wants to see. ”

I suddenly felt so cold, the wind in winter is cold, the withering of people's hearts is even colder, this coldness comes from an inexplicable empathy, Mrs. Chen's experience is not a distant story, such things happen around us all the time, in every ordinary family.

Love is not as precious as it is portrayed in those romances many times, and in many cases it is humble and not worth mentioning, and it is questionable whether this kind of casual mix between two people is considered love.

"My father beat me, it was the first time he beat me, he told me to stop being willful, and I can remember clearly what he said to me that night." Mrs. Chen silently covered her cheeks, as if that pain had continued to this day. "He said let me die of this heart, divorce is not allowed in our family, which will cause a very bad social impact, will become the laughing stock of others, and will affect my father's future."

In fact, we could all expect Mrs. Chen to receive such a reply, so it is not unusual, in our small town, this is the norm.

"What's even more frustrating is that my father also said that it was my own fault that I couldn't keep peace with my husband, and I should obey my husband's words, this is a woman, a wife's duty, and now I don't do a good job but think about divorce can only show that I am a woman without discipline." As Mrs. Chen spoke, tears glistened with tears in her eyes again, and her long messy hair twitched her dull pupils. "Father's words are like tens of thousands of steel needles, poking my heart into a thousand holes, at first I just thought that my father just had his own purpose, he still had a little love for me, until he said those few words I clearly realized that I was really too naïve."

Seeing Mrs. Chen like this, seeing her eyes that were almost hollowed out of her soul, I didn't even want to complain about her murder anymore.

"This is not the most terrible thing, Chen Ming slowly found out about my idea of divorce, and he began to beat me like crazy, he is no longer as elegant as when he pursued me, he has become a ruthless demon." Mrs. Chen's voice was hoarse, and she didn't know how deep the resentment had accumulated in her heart when she said this. "The way you see him is his truest appearance, and it's even more brutal than just now."

On the surface, I always thought that Mr. Chen was a gentle and even a little cowardly, and I even thought that he would slap Mrs. Chen just now just because he lost his mind because of today's quarrel, but I never expected that this was his original face.

"He's a disgusting sadist, he even tied me up and locked me in the basement for two days and two nights, and he told me to bite his socks and kneel on the ground all the time, do you think he's a demon? Can you imagine how I spent those years? Beatings and insults, and the distrust of my father, it was a living hell. ”

Yu Ge, who had been aggressive just now, was also a little moved at this moment, and said a few words to himself. "This man really deserves to die!"

"But Mrs. Chen, why is it that the Mr. Chen we see is not as you described, I even think he is a very timid and afraid person." Han Ke asked.

"All superficial phenomena are for a reason, and the reason why he later appeared like a decent man and a gentleman was precisely because of the fear in his heart."

"And what is he afraid of?"

"He was afraid of Ma Yuan, and five years later Ma Yuan came back from out of town." Mrs. Chen said firmly. "It is said that in 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, and in five years, Chen Ming's father-in-law, who was my father-in-law, was knocked off the horse because he stood on the wrong team, my father's officialdom dream was shattered, and he was also guilty of sitting together. And Ma Yuan, he went out to be a soldier, participated in the war in Vietnam and won meritorious services, and when he returned to his hometown, everyone regarded him as a hero. ”

"Did he threaten Chen Ming?"

"Ma Yuan has always been the only one in his heart, and when he knew that my life was worse than death, he found someone to beat Chen Ming severely, but this was not the most important reason for him to disguise." Mrs. Chen said. "The main reason is that he has no ability to survive without learning and no skills, losing his father's big tree, he is like a lamb to be slaughtered, our family was already extremely poor at that time, if it wasn't for Ma Yuan to help, I'm afraid he would have starved to death. So he didn't dare to collide with Ma Yuan, he could only acquiesce to me and Ma Yuan falling in love in private, and he himself knew that my marriage with him had already become the most fragile shell, so that he only needed to be an actor to live the same worry-free life as before, for a rotten person like him, there is nothing that cannot be compromised. ”

It sounds reasonable to talk about it this way, it turns out that Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen's careers are silently supported by Lao Ma behind them, although I haven't had much contact with them over the years, but I can still understand that Lao Ma and Mr. and Mrs. Chen are very good friends, and now this apparent friendship relationship is really fake to the extreme.

"Mrs. Chen, I want to know why the person you really love has also returned, and Chen Ming's family has also declined, but you haven't divorced him yet, it was because of your father's obstruction, but now that Chen Ming has lost the protection of the family, I don't think your father will stop you anymore?" Han Ke asked. "Why bother to put on a look that you and Chen Ming are still very affectionate."

"It's because of Ma Yuan, he was already a big boss at that time, and he was also well-known in the local area, he didn't dare to take on a seductive infamy, so although he loved me and never got married and had children for me, he never dared to give me a real name."

People who listen to this are ridiculous, and they have all reached this joint, why are they still entangled in the "rules and precepts" in these societies? But if you think about it, each of us is not like this, when the word cheating is mentioned, we will unconsciously despise it, no matter what the reason, we will always feel that it is a sin.

The word derailment is like a poisonous plague, infecting everyone, I saw Zhang Zhong and Han Ke also have an embarrassed expression on their faces, they glanced at each other, and then turned back, for fear that we would see their strange expressions. I think the love between Zhang Zhong and Han Ke will have an indescribable similarity with the Chen couple, maybe the extramarital affairs in this world are all for this reason.