Chapter 1

The bright red bellyband was half hanging on the chest.

The hair is a little messy.

His eyes were dazed and confused.

My body feels sore and achy as if it’s falling apart.

This is Gu Qijiao’s current state.

She still couldn’t believe what was happening before her eyes.

She was thirty-five years old, but was reborn back to the age of twenty because of a car accident.

And she was reborn on her wedding night.

The man lying next to her and snoring loudly was her newlywed husband Zheng Yunsheng.

Zheng Yunsheng was an educated youth who went to the countryside from the city to work in the fields.

Zhiqing is the abbreviation of educated youth.

In my grandmother’s words, they are educated people and the best of the best.

Just because she thought Zheng Yunsheng was educated and good-looking, Gu Qijiao actually took advantage of Zheng Yunsheng being drunk and deliberately climbed into his bed during the Chinese New Year.

Then, on the grounds that her innocence was ruined, she forced Zheng Yunsheng to marry her.

But Gu Qijiao didn’t live a good life after she married Zheng Yunsheng.

When they first got married, Zheng Yunsheng was actually quite nice to Gu Qijiao. Although he didn’t say he loved her, at least he always showed her the proper respect.

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.

Less than two months after their wedding, Gu Qijiao found a photo of Bai Xiaoou in Zheng Yunsheng’s collection of books while cleaning her room.

Bai Xiaoou and Zheng Yunsheng were educated youth from the same city who came to the countryside to work as sent-down youths.

It is said that they were high school classmates.

Bai Xiaoou’s smile in the photo was like a peach blossom in the New Year. Her fair face and the brilliant smile on her lips stung Gu Qijiao’s eyes like the scorching sun.

Out of jealousy, Gu Qijiao rushed to the village’s educated youth commune with the photo in her hand.

And he slapped the photo in front of the commune leader Xie Zhenbei.

“Captain Xie, please give us some advice. How can this little slut from the city be so shameless? She gave the photo to a married gay man. Isn’t she embarrassed?”

When Gu Qijiao went to the commune, the educated youth had just gathered there for lunch. She had a loud voice, and her shout immediately attracted a bunch of people.

Seeing that there were people watching the fun, Gu Qijiao became even more excited.

Like a mad shrew, Gu Qijiao yelled and cursed in the commune, using all the insulting words she could think of at Bai Xiaoou.

The violent shouting and cursing soon called out Bai Xiaoou, the person involved.

Bai Xiaoou was not a soft persimmon who could be bullied. She slapped Gu Qijiao twice right away. She looked at Gu Qijiao with sarcasm and said:

“How dare you scold me? What dirty tricks did you use to marry Brother Yunsheng? Don’t you have any idea in your mind?”

Her man was seduced, and not only did he not get justice, he was also beaten. How could Gu Qijiao bear this injustice?

She immediately attacked Bai Xiaoou without caring about anything and scratched his face.

Gu Qijiao even pulled out several strands of Bai Xiaoou’s hair.

When women fight, they either scratch faces or pull hair.

Gu Qijiao and Bai Xiaoou fought fiercely.

The people around him couldn’t stop him at all.

In the end, it was Zheng Yunsheng who showed up and yelled at Gu Qijiao, which stopped the fight between the two.

After stopping, Gu Qijiao looked at her hands with great satisfaction.

She is from the country and has been used to doing farm work since she was a child. Naturally, her physical strength is much stronger than Bai Xiaoou.

After the fight, Gu Qijiao had no other problems except for her messy hair and two slap marks on her face.

Looking at Bai Xiaoou again, there were several bloody cuts on her fair face, her hair was crumpled like a chicken coop, and two buttons of her clothes were torn off.

Seeing Bai Xiaoou’s miserable appearance, Gu Qijiao felt extremely proud.

If anyone dares to covet her man, she will definitely not let him off easily.

Unfortunately, her pride only lasted for three seconds, as Gu Qijiao was slapped in the face by Zheng Yunsheng’s next move.

After seeing that the buttons on Bai Xiaoou’s clothes were torn off, Zheng Yunsheng actually took off his coat and put it on Bai Xiaoou’s shoulders.

This action was like a match igniting explosives, which directly angered Gu Qijiao.

She grabbed the photo of Bai Xiaoou on the table, tore it into pieces and threw it at Bai Xiaoou’s face.

He left after saying “bastard”.

After that incident, the relationship between Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng reached its freezing point.

Although the two lived under the same roof, they basically had nothing to talk about.

No different from a stranger.

At that time, Gu Qijiao began to regret it.

She began to hate the stupid thing she had done in the heat of the moment and hated herself for marrying Zheng Yunsheng in that way.

She could accept that this man didn’t love her, but she couldn’t accept that there was someone else living in this man’s heart, and there was even a photo of that person in the book.

This incident became a thorn in Gu Qijiao’s heart.

Although Gu Qijiao later fell seriously ill, Zheng Yunsheng took good care of her during her hospitalization, and their relationship eased.

But Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng continued to get along with each other in a lukewarm manner.

There was never the kind of tenderness between them that exists between husband and wife.

The two lived together in the countryside for a year and a half. At the end of the second year, news suddenly came that the educated youth could return to the city.

Gu Qijiao followed Zheng Yunsheng into the city.

After moving to the city, because Gu Qijiao had attended junior high school and could read, Zheng Yunsheng’s parents used many connections to arrange for Gu Qijiao to work in a steel factory.

Less than half a year after working at the steel plant, Gu Qijiao became pregnant.

With the child, Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng now have a common bond and expectations.

This brought some comfort to Gu Qijiaojiao’s heart. As she looked at her growing belly, she felt that life finally had hope.

Unfortunately, the child did not come into this world safely.

When Gu Qijiao was pregnant and about to give birth, she met Bai Xiaoou on the street.

That day, Gu Qijiao saw a silver ring on Bai Xiaoou’s hand.

The reason why she noticed the ring was that Zheng Yunsheng had once given her an identical one.

After seeing the ring, Gu Qijiao angrily blocked Bai Xiaoou and asked her where the ring on her hand came from.

Unexpectedly, Bai Xiaoou openly admitted in front of Gu Qijiao that her ring was also given by Zheng Yunsheng.

Gu Qijiao, who was about to give birth, felt such a huge shock that she fainted on the ground and went into premature labor.

When passers-by rushed Gu Qijiao to the hospital, the child had already died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen as the amniotic fluid had been broken for too long.

To make matters worse, Gu Qijiao permanently lost her qualifications to be a mother.

After that, Gu Qijiao hated Zheng Yunsheng and Bai Xiaoou.

The first thing she did after being discharged from the hospital was to file for divorce from Zheng Yunsheng.

But no one knew what Zheng Yunsheng was thinking and he just refused to agree.

The marriage between the two can only continue to maintain in such a lukewarm state.

The marriage was unhappy and the child was gone.

At that time, the country had just resumed the college entrance examination, and Gu Qijiao, who worked in a steel plant, began to focus on studying.

Originally, it was Zheng Yunsheng who urged Gu Qijiao to study, but later she actually took the initiative to bury herself in the books.

She had attended junior high school and had a certain foundation in learning. With enough hard work, Gu Qijiao was admitted to university in the second year after the resumption of the college entrance examination.

After receiving the university admission letter, Gu Qijiao left the city where she lived with Zheng Yunsheng without even saying goodbye.

She relied on the salary she saved from working in a steel factory to pay for her tuition, worked in the school cafeteria, and finished college while working part-time.

Later, because of her excellent academic performance, she stayed on to teach at the school and completed her master’s degree with pay.

After leaving Zheng Yunsheng, Gu Qijiao lived a wonderful life as if she had been blessed with a cheat code.

Perhaps it was because she had lost her marriage and knew she would never have children, so she felt that her life had reached a dead end.

At that time, the only thing she could do was to work hard to improve herself.

When people are in desperate situations, as long as they can find the right direction to develop, they may be able to survive.

Gu Qijiao is just like that.

After obtaining a master’s degree, Gu Qijiao returned to the small city where she and Zheng Yunsheng had lived and filed for a divorce from him.

This time Zheng Yunsheng did not refuse and happily went through the divorce procedures with Gu Qijiao.

After coming out of the divorce registration office, Gu Qijiao apologized to Zheng Yunsheng very sincerely.

She said: “I’m sorry. I was young and ignorant and caused you so much pain. From now on, you can live the life you want and chase the person you want.”

The person that Gu Qijiao said Zheng Yunsheng wanted to pursue was naturally Bai Xiaoou. As far as she knew, Bai Xiaoou had always been single.

After many years, Gu Qijiao has slowly let go of many things.

Although losing her child is a pain in her heart that will never heal, she will never forgive Bai Xiaoou for provoking her and causing her miscarriage when she was pregnant.

But seriously speaking, Gu Qijiao also knew that the person who made the most outrageous mistake in the beginning was herself.

She understood very little when she was young. Not only did her parents spoil her, they were also rough people with unclear values.

Seeing that she managed to get into bed and get married by scheming, not only did he not beat or scold her, he also secretly praised her for her promising future.

Later, Gu Qijiao read more books, traveled longer distances, saw more of the world, and experienced more things.

Only then did she gradually realize how absurd and ignorant what she had done was.

So she sincerely said sorry to Zheng Yunsheng.

If she hadn’t interfered, Zheng Yunsheng might have married a good wife who was a good match for him and lived a loving life with him for the rest of his life.

Instead of being like it is now, where people reach middle age and their wives and children are separated.

After Gu Qijiao apologized to Zheng Yunsheng, Zheng Yunsheng also said something to Gu Qijiao, which seemed to be saying something like “I don’t blame you and I never regret it.”

Unfortunately, a motorcycle happened to be passing by at that time and the noise was too loud, so Gu Qijiao didn’t hear it clearly.

Thinking about it later, she guessed that she must have heard it wrong. After all, how could Zheng Yunsheng not blame her!

However, Gu Qijiao did not ask Zheng Yunsheng any further questions because those questions were no longer important.

From the moment she lost her child, she and Zheng Yunsheng became complete strangers.

After the divorce, Gu Qijiao returned to the city where she went to college to work, and had no contact with Zheng Yunsheng for seven or eight years.

She worked as a teacher at Nankai University and remained single and never got married.

On her 33rd birthday, she ordered a cake from a pastry shop alone to celebrate her birthday.

Unexpectedly, on the way to pick up the cake, Gu Qijiao got into a car accident.

What makes Gu Qijiao shudder when she thinks about it now is that at the moment before the car accident, she saw that the person driving the car was Bai Xiaoou.

There was viciousness in Bai Xiaoou’s eyes, and she drove the car deliberately towards Gu Qijiao.

Gu Qijiao really didn’t understand what kind of deep hatred Bai Xiaoou had with her that would make him appear in her city without any warning and premeditatedly run her over with his car.

Although Gu Qijiao used dishonest means to snatch Zheng Yunsheng away when she was young, she also paid the price of losing her child and becoming infertile for life.

And in the end she divorced Zheng Yunsheng, giving Zheng Yunsheng and Bai Xiaoou the opportunity to rekindle their love.

So Gu Qijiao couldn’t understand why Bai Xiaoou wanted to hit her with his car?

This collision also brought Gu Qijiao back to the age of 20, back to the day of her wedding with Zheng Yunsheng.

Thinking of the past and looking at the man snoring loudly next to her, Gu Qijiao couldn’t help but sigh.