All the heavens begin with the love in the courtyard.

At this moment, Qin Huairu came out of the house, her expression filled with despair, and in a hoarse voice, she shouted at her mother-in-law who was still running around.

"Mom, are you trying to drive me to my death before you're satisfied?"

Upon seeing that there was still juicy gossip to be had, everyone stopped on their way home and turned their attention to Qin Huairu and the old woman.

The old woman stopped in her tracks when Qin Huairu called out to her, looking at her daughter-in-law not far away with a strangely complicated expression.

At this moment, all three children of Qin Huairu's family woke up. When they came out and saw their grandmother and mother arguing, and saw the injury on their mother's face, Xiao Dang and Xiao Kuihua were so frightened that they burst into tears!

Banggeng stood there somewhat bewildered, leading his two younger sisters closer to Qin Huairu. When Qin Huairu saw the three children, all her strength seemed to shatter at that moment. She stumbled forward and hugged the three children to her side. The three children hugged her and burst into tears.

Qin Huairu's hair was disheveled, the slap mark on her face was already red and swollen, and the blood at the corner of her mouth stained her teeth. She raised her head, looked in the direction of her mother-in-law, and said in a hoarse voice with a sense of despair.

"Mom, all these years, I've worked so hard to take care of you and our three children. I've poured all my heart and soul into this family. I'm so tired. I'm not capable of taking good care of this family anymore. I've done my best. I just want to find someone to rely on, someone to keep going, to continue taking care of this family, and to raise our three children..."

Qin Huairu let out a desperate cry, almost hoarse, and finally burst into tears. She hugged her three children and wept bitterly, crying so hard that it seemed she was letting out all the grievances and sorrows of the past years in front of everyone in the hospital.

This scene moved everyone present, and their eyes all welled up with tears.

He Yuzhu was also affected by this emotion, and felt a lump in his throat. In the courtyard, some elderly women were wiping away their tears, heartbroken for Qin Huairu.

A woman, struggling to raise three children and support her mother-in-law, endured not only the lewd jokes of men but also the same backbreaking labor in the steel mill as the men, all to ensure her children were fed and clothed. Returning home, she was still bullied by her mother-in-law. Just thinking about such a life evokes pity and sympathy.

This woman only wants to find a man to rely on in her next life; what's wrong with that?

Yes! What's wrong with that?

Everyone turned their attention to He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu was a little stunned. Why are you all looking at me?

Why are you looking at me?

I got a lot of flak, so I'll write a separate chapter to explain why I created the character Qin Huairu!

When writing the character Qin Huairu, I watched the TV series twice. As I watched, I suddenly felt that this woman was terrifying. She almost controlled He Yuzhu's entire life.

Does He Yuzhu really not understand this woman's purpose?

I watched it several times, and I always felt that He Yuzhu actually knew many times that Qin Huairu was controlling his life.

But why was He Yuzhu still willing to foolishly dedicate his entire life to this?

This reminds me of another person, a real person.

Let me tell you a story!

The protagonist of the story is a woman, born in 1989, who died on December 24, 2020!

This woman was very beautiful when she was young. In junior high school, she was known as the school beauty. She had long, flowing hair and wore the same white dress as before.

Unfortunately, she dropped out of junior high school and started dating a petty hoodlum. Her first boyfriend stole her innocence and naivety.

Her second boyfriend was when she was seventeen. That year, she gave birth to a child with that man, who took away the most beautiful years of her youth and her body.

She met her third boyfriend while working. He was very handsome and planned to take her on a life of adventure, but instead he led her into a dangerous situation. She was forced into prostitution for six months before being taken away by a migrant worker.

Her fourth boyfriend was that customer. He was married and twenty years older than her, but he gave her the first warmth in her life.

Her fifth boyfriend was a petty hoodlum. This hoodlum took her on a wild ride, let her enjoy the last vestiges of her youth, and transformed her from a tall, beautiful woman weighing 110 pounds into a skinny woman weighing 75 pounds.

Finally, due to strong opposition and intervention from her family, she was taken to her mother's side. She secretly contacted some thugs and gave them her address.

The other party arrived at her house on a motorcycle in the middle of the night, brandishing a long knife and threatening her mother, saying they would take her away!

Her mother chose to confront him directly, but was stabbed and forced to watch helplessly as the man led her daughter away to the ends of the earth while she clutched her wound in the stairwell.

Her mother, after struggling in the stairwell all night, bled to death.

A month later, her fifth boyfriend was arrested, and after learning of her mother's death, she was sent to a mental hospital.

A year later, she was discharged from the hospital and met her sixth boyfriend.

The two had been together for three months, during which the woman chose to conceal her past. Then one day, she suddenly broke up with him, leaving the man somewhat bewildered.

The woman began to recount her past while crying, telling each story one by one, leaving the man stunned.

After thinking it over for a few days, the man chose to forgive his partner and face the future together with her.

The man saw the woman in his arms and felt pity for her life, so he wanted to learn about her past himself.

By sheer chance, the man found a QQ account with a password. After thinking for a moment, he entered the woman's birthday and successfully gained access to the account.

The space was filled with diaries spanning over a decade. After reading through all the diaries in one night, the man completely broke down.

It turns out that all the truths she knew were like a joke. She did give birth to a child, and her mother was indeed killed by one of her boyfriends, but all the truths were a hundred times more cruel than what she had cried out about.

She did suffer from mental illness, not once, but twice. The first time was when she was dumped by her second boyfriend. The reason for the dumping was that she threatened him with her child to force him to marry her, and as a result, he chose to leave her.

After being abandoned by her man, she chose to sell herself. There, she met a wealthy man who believed she was a pitiful girl. She went home with him and lived there for two years.

Two years later, she forced the wife to divorce him, and as a result, she was abandoned once again.

That was the first time she was admitted to a mental hospital.

Later, she met one boyfriend after another, until she met that scoundrel boyfriend.

While dating the thugs, she also started dating another boyfriend. She took the initiative to provoke the thugs with text messages, and as a result... that night, she watched her mother fall into a pool of blood, and she was led away by the thugs, barefoot.

The story begins again with her sixth boyfriend, whom she dated after her second stay in the mental hospital.

After learning the whole truth, the sixth boyfriend chose to break up.

However, the woman's choice to cry and apologize plunged the man into endless pain time and time again, ultimately leading him to choose to break up with her.

In the two years following the breakup, this woman repeatedly appeared in her sixth boyfriend's life through chance encounters, feigning helplessness, and ultimately, physical seduction.

It wasn't until her sixth boyfriend discovered that less than a month after breaking up with her, he already had a seventh boyfriend, and that everything he had told her over the past two years had actually been a lie.

Her sixth boyfriend was completely devastated and chose to end the relationship.

Three years later, her sixth boyfriend heard about this woman again—this time it was news of her death.

She chose to visit her son on the day before the Lunar New Year, bringing gifts because it was his birthday. However, she was met with his hateful insults and being driven away.

She stood alone on the street opposite her son's house for a long time. Then one day it suddenly started raining heavily. She went to a pesticide shop on the street in the rain, bought a bottle of pesticide, and drank it all on the street.

She was taken to the hospital by an ambulance. The doctor asked her what kind of pesticide she had drunk. She just smiled and didn't answer. She kept smiling and didn't say anything. She passed away that night.

Yes, I was that sixth boyfriend. I was depressed for almost five years because of her.

When I learned of her death, I was completely stunned. I just couldn't understand why a woman who treated men like playthings would choose to commit suicide and even ultimately choose to forgo resuscitation.

Until I saw Qin Huairu, I suddenly, for some reason, thought of her. The two seemed to have nothing in common, but I suddenly wondered if I were Sha Zhu, would I choose to continue living with her for the rest of my life after learning the truth?

Unfortunately, he wasn't a fool like Zhu, so in the end he still wouldn't choose her. In contrast, He Yuzhu in the TV series knew that the other party was stringing him along, but he still chose to spend his life with Qin Huairu.

When I was writing this book, I suddenly wanted to turn Qin Huairu into a villain, because I was reminded of her again.

Of course, Qin Huairu's descent into darkness was more about finding someone to rely on, so whether it's good or bad is for everyone to judge for themselves.

Speaking of this woman, I suddenly remembered the first time I went to her house with her, and I saw a family photo on her bedside table.

The girl with long, flowing hair, wearing a white dress, looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. She looked like she had stepped out of a painting. She stood obediently behind her mother, with happy dimples on her face. I still often think of that smile.

Chapter 53: What's going on?

He Yuzhu was indeed a little confused. Why are you all looking at me like that?

I really have no relationship with Qin Huairu.

However, given the current atmosphere, He Yuzhu didn't think much of it. Fortunately, the deaf old lady started to step in and reassure everyone, scolding Jia Zhangshi to hurry home and stop embarrassing herself.

Then Qin Huairu was asked to take the children back to sleep. Qin Huairu's eyes were swollen from crying, but she bravely held the children's hands and went back.

Everyone was ushered home; the gossip was clearly over, and everyone dispersed.

No one noticed that Qin Jingru, with her hands tucked into her sleeves, was watching the commotion from the very outside of the crowd. She had just watched the whole thing and hadn't dared to make a sound.

She felt uneasy because she didn't feel any sadness. Thinking about her cousin's actions during this time, Qin Jingru felt a chill run down her spine.

For Qin Jingru, who came from a rural background, her cousin Qin Huairu's life was not as bitter as her cousin described.

My cousin is indeed widowed at a young age, raising three children and taking care of her mother-in-law on her own, but she is a factory worker.

With her salary, she could support ten rural children. Moreover, from what I know, my cousin used to bring vegetables back to the city from the countryside quite often. In addition, in previous years, Sha Zhu's salary was basically used to subsidize my cousin's family.

Finally, there was the help of an old man in the compound and others. Qin Huairu even directly flirted with people at the factory and got a lot of benefits. Her children have never gone hungry since they were little.

Qin Jingru still remembers one time when she came to visit her cousin and saw her cousin's mother-in-law buying snacks for Banggeng, such as candied hawthorns that cost only one cent. She bought them without hesitation. Looking at the banknotes that her mother-in-law took out of her pocket, there were at least several yuan. That scene made Qin Jingru, who was only fifteen years old at the time, envious for a long time, and she vowed that she would definitely marry into the city in the future.

Take this year for example. The steel mill has indeed only paid half of the wages in the past few months, but is Qin Huairu struggling to make ends meet?

Over the past few months, they have "borrowed" several tens of yuan from her. Thinking of this, Qin Jingru felt a pang of sadness.

Given these conditions, she still claims to have poured her heart and soul into it. Qin Jingru was furious just thinking about it. She wondered how many girls in the countryside envied her cousin's life.

Qin Jingru grew angrier the more she thought about it, but the thought that Qin Huairu still had something on her made her feel a pang of sadness. There was only one way to get rid of her cousin's secret: to have a child with Xu Damao.

Once she has Xu Damao's child, her cousin will no longer be able to threaten her with the fact that she was faking her pregnancy, and she won't have to be "borrowed" money from her from time to time.

She had been trying for almost a year, but hadn't even seen a glimpse of a child, and Qin Jingru felt increasingly distressed.

He Yuzhu, lying in bed, also felt a tightness in his chest. Why was life going backwards?

Am I destined to never have a wife?

Still influenced by the inertia of the original work, I am destined to be involved with Qin Huairu.

Thinking of the scene of Qin Huairu being beaten today, He Yuzhu felt a dull pain in his heart. What was wrong?

Do I have widow syndrome?

He Yuzhu felt increasingly uneasy, but he couldn't figure it out. He had even considered the possibility that Qin Huairu might be up to her tricks again.

But thinking back on the past six months, Qin Huairu seems to have changed from her usual self. She has neither flirted with him nor asked him for food, drink, or money. She has even told the children not to take his things.

Finally, there are all the things he's done for me these past few months, and the meticulous care he's given me while I was sick, yet he's never asked me for anything!

This is completely different from the Qin Huairu of the past. He Yuzhu even sometimes wondered what would happen if he married Qin Huairu.

Of course, every time this thought came to mind, he would quickly banish it from his head; the idea was too dangerous.

But for some reason, I've been having this thought more and more lately, especially during the days I was sick. Men do have a vulnerable side, especially when they're vulnerable, and a woman takes meticulous care of them.

That kind of care will be deeply etched in the minds of many men.