If she'd had a choice, she wouldn't have been sent to the countryside in her past life. Her stepfather wouldn't have traded her like a piece of cargo, passing her from one man's arms to the next. While her stepfather was to blame for her suffering, wasn't her own powerlessness—her fear of fighting back—also a cause?
But her brother was completely innocent!
He was so well-behaved. As long as he had a little something to eat, he would be perfectly quiet. But they wouldn't even spare him a mouthful of food, and his mother couldn't protect him. In the end, her brother was sent to an asylum and tormented to death.
And what about her mother, Xia Yingyu? In the end, she became a lofty, high-society matron, the very picture of grace and wealth.
