Li Suhua cried until tears streamed down her old face.
Lin Jiajun tried to pull her up:
"Mom, why are you kneeling to her? We did nothing wrong, so why kneel?
"Get up. If anyone should kneel, it's that vicious old woman kneeling to you."
Lin Wanyi also cried as she tried to pull Li Suhua up:
"Mom, you've never kneeled to anyone in your entire life. Get up, please get up."
But Li Suhua remained kneeling, begging Liu Chunlan:
"We are both mothers. Put yourself in my shoes. If your daughter was bullied like this by her husband's family, wouldn't you be heartbroken?
"Liu Chunlan, no matter what my daughter did to make you hate her so much, I apologize on her behalf. I'll kneel for her.
"As long as you give Keke back to her, as long as you let her go, I'm begging you."
Lin Wanyi squatted beside Li Suhua, her heart aching as if pierced by tens of thousands of steel needles.
"Mom, Mom, don't do this. Get up, Mom!
"Mom!"
Lin Wanyi was heartbroken to the core, devastated that the marriage she had chosen had subjected her own mother to such humiliation.
Weeping tears of blood with every word, she turned to Wang Hao and said:
"Wang Hao, give the child to me. I agree with my mother. I don't want the house or the money. I just want my daughter, okay?
"I beg you, give my daughter to me. I'll write you an agreement right now. I'll promise in front of all these people that I absolutely won't fight you for the house, alright?
"Wang Hao!"
The onlookers were infuriated.
"How can you bully people like this? You in-laws are too despicable."
"Exactly. Look at how badly they've been bullied. Her mother even kneeled down, how can you still be so cold-hearted?"
"This is outrageous. Old woman, give the child back to them."
Wang Keke was still crying loudly, calling for her mother and grandmother. Wang Hao looked at Lin Wanyi, who was crying so hard she looked like she might pass out, and a string in his heart suddenly snapped.
He suddenly felt that since she was in so much pain, they should just get divorced.
Let her go. Let her leave.
As long as she was happy, as long as she was glad.
But he couldn't bear to part with her.
He couldn't bear to let Lin Wanyi go, nor the possible son in her belly.
While he was endlessly conflicted, Liu Renzhi, who had been standing in the distance, suddenly snatched Wang Keke from Liu Chunlan's hands when she wasn't paying attention.
By the time Liu Chunlan reacted, he had already handed the child to Lin Wanyi.
Lin Wanyi held Wang Keke tightly and wailed.
When Wang Hao saw Liu Renzhi, he raised his fist and charged at him:
"You again! Why are you everywhere? Why do you keep haunting us?"
He didn't even touch Liu Renzhi before Liu Renzhi landed a punch on him first:
"Wang Hao, I despise you. You are not a man!"
Wang Hao covered his bleeding nose: "Whether I'm a man or not isn't up to you. But let me tell you, Lin Wanyi is my wife. The fact that she can carry my child proves I am a man.
"She will be my wife for the rest of her life. Don't even think about getting close to her!"
Lin Wanyi handed Wang Keke to Lin Jiajun.
She walked slowly up to Wang Hao and suddenly slapped him twice across the face:
"Wang Hao, you really deserve to die!"
Wang Hao grabbed Lin Wanyi's wrist with his bloody hand, his eyes completely bloodshot with impulsive rage:
"What, Lin Wanyi, are you unhappy that I cursed at him? Are you angry? Does your heart ache for him?
"It seems my mother was right. You really are having an illicit affair with this man.
"Let me remind you, we aren't divorced yet. Lin Wanyi, I won't let you off. I will never divorce you, I..."
His words were cut off by Liu Renzhi's fist.
And interrupted by a kick from Lin Jiajun.
If the police officers hadn't pulled them apart, Wang Hao would definitely have been beaten to death.
Liu Chunlan and Wang Meijuan supported Wang Hao:
"Sue them, Haohao. Sue them to death. Sue them all until they go to jail."
They then looked at the police officers: "Officers, you saw them hitting people. You saw it loud and clear.
"Arrest them. Arrest all of them and put them in jail."
Wang Hao also pointed at Liu Renzhi: "I'll sue you. I will definitely sue you."
Liu Renzhi shook his hand out: "Anytime, you worthless coward!"
Wang Hao was driven mad with anger; he wished he could kill Liu Renzhi right then and there.
Lin Wanyi, however, kept thanking Liu Renzhi.
She bowed, once, twice, several times: "Thank you, Brother Liu, thank you so much.
"If it weren't for you, my daughter... I... we..."
She sobbed so hard she lost her voice. She couldn't even form a coherent sentence, left only with endless shuddering gasps.
Liu Renzhi felt an indescribable sensation in his heart.
He couldn't understand how marriage could push a person to such extremes.
Shouldn't marriage be beautiful, be happy, like his father and mother's?
But what he had just heard was nothing like that.
All he heard was sorrow, without a single trace of happiness.
Lin Jiajun held Wang Keke tightly, terrified that Liu Chunlan would snatch her away again.
He asked Lin Wanyi, "We missed our flight. What do we do now?
"Should we rebook?"
Lin Wanyi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. She checked her phone again, but that was the only flight for today.
They couldn't leave again. They couldn't leave today.
Suddenly, as if drained of all her strength, she squatted on the ground and burst into loud sobs.
She didn't care about the crowds coming and going around her, nor did she care about Liu Renzhi standing beside her.
She just cried.
Crying over the man she had insisted on marrying, crying over the marriage she had gambled on and lost.
Crying for her pitiful daughter, crying for her mother who had never suffered a grievance in her life but had just kneeled to Liu Chunlan.
She was in so much agony.
She felt so wronged.
She just wanted to live a good life together forever. Why was it so hard?
She just wanted to run her marriage well. Why was that so hard too?
Why had the man who was once so sincere turned into this?
Why?
Why on earth?
Where did she go wrong?
Was it just because she married far away from home?
But all she did was marry far away. She didn't commit murder or arson, she didn't commit any crimes, so why?
Why did she have to be treated like this?
She couldn't understand it. She racked her brains but still couldn't understand.
She cried recklessly, crying wildly without any regard for her image.
Wang Hao wanted to comfort her, but he didn't dare step forward.
Liu Renzhi also wanted to comfort her, but he didn't have the status to do so.
Lin Jiajun held Wang Keke, and Li Suhua held Lin Wanyi as they cried together.
The women in the crowd of onlookers also shed tears.
"So pitiful, it's just too pitiful."
"Sigh, why even get married? Daughter, if you don't want to get married in the future, then don't. Mom won't force you anymore."
"Yeah, an unhappy marriage with an unreliable man is worse than staying single for a lifetime."
"What's the point? What's the point of this kind of marriage?"
Wang Hao tried to explain. He wanted to tell them it wasn't like that.
He loved Lin Wanyi.
His heart ached for her.
But he couldn't say the words.
In the end, all he managed to say was:
"Stop crying, be careful of the child in your belly!"
"Child?"
The child again.
As if hearing some cursed spell, Lin Wanyi suddenly looked up, her hair disheveled and her eyes bloodshot.
Like a wild beast, she lunged toward the table next to her to smash into it.
She wasn't thinking about anything. There was only one voice in her heart:
Kill this child, smash him to death!
Kill him!
