"You trash, you can't even hold a bath. Get lost and kneel outside!"

Accompanied by a scream, Shi Lei, who was in his tattered pajamas and barefooted, had his ear grabbed by a red palm mark on his right cheek and was thrown out of the house.

Shi Lei looked at the door, and saw that he had kneeled on the floor, and laughed bitterly, then knelt in front of the door.

He knelt there and silently sighed in his heart. Old Man Chen, when will I be able to repay this debt to you?

Eight years ago, in order to save Shi Lei, he died. Before he died, he hoped that Shi Lei could marry into his family and marry his own daughter.

This decision shocked everyone else, especially Chen Changsheng's daughter and wife. No matter what, they would not agree to let the person who had harmed Chen Changsheng become their son-in-law.

However, Old Master Chen was very insistent that if Shi Lei did not marry into Chen Family, he would die with grievances.

Just like this, after the death of Old Master Chen, when Shi Lei married into the Chen Family, for the past eight years, whenever the mother and daughter of the Chen Family remembered the death of Old Master Chen, they would vent their anger on Shi Lei.

Deep into the night, Shi Lei could no longer hold on, his body slanted to the ground and he fell into a deep sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, faint footsteps came from inside the room. Shi Lei opened his eyes in shock, and quickly proficiently knelt in his original position.

The door opened, and his mother-in-law stared at Shi Lei with eyes full of hatred. Shi Lei laughed bitterly, then slowly closed his eyes, preparing to face the incoming storm.

"You bastard dared to sleep! "You're an executioner, a coward. I'll kill you." The mother-in-law's face seemed to show some impatience, but it was soon covered up by anger.

The old Chen's longing for her had tortured this woman to the point that she had gone crazy. She even began to hate herself, not knowing when she had become like this.

Following his mother-in-law's curses, five bloody lines appeared on Shi Lei's face. He remained kneeling there motionlessly, allowing her to vent on his body.

"Goddamnit, look at this heartless bastard you saved. He bullies us orphans and widows like this every day, and you're just going to leave us behind like that! We'll be bullied by this trash every day!"

The mother-in-law crouched on the ground and cried in pain.

Shi Lei endured everything silently, and a bit of his hatred was quickly covered up by his guilt.

"Mom, go back!" Shi Lei didn't need to open his eyes to know that this was his wife, Chen Yurou.

Chen Yurou supported her mother-in-law as they walked into the house. After walking a few steps, she turned and said to Shi Lei, "You should also rest."

Everything quieted down. Shi Lei stood up with wounds all over his body, and gently closed the door. He laid down on the single bed on the balcony, and looked at the bright moon outside.

At six thirty in the morning, Shi Lei punctually opened his eyes and began to do day after day of work. He prepared breakfast, prepared Chen Yurou and her mother's tooth gear, and then sat back down in the corner of the balcony. When they washed up, they put their breakfast on the table on time.

During breakfast, Shi Lei sat at the corner of the balcony, holding his bowl of food as usual.

Everything seemed to return to calm, but the atmosphere was getting heavier and heavier, as if a volcano was about to erupt at any moment.

When they were first married, Shi Lei tried to change this strange atmosphere, but he failed, and after that he could only silently endure.

When Chen Yurou went to work, she saw Shi Lei sitting in the corner of the balcony with wounds all over his body, pity flashed past his eyes, but he gritted his teeth in anger and walked out of the house.

Very quickly, Shi Lei left the house with the flat paper bag, and started walking around the trash cans with a numb face.

Shi Lei had already gotten used to the complicated gazes of passersby. Some of them were sympathetic, but most of them were mocking and ridiculing others, or they were indifferent to it.

Who would have thought that a famous university student at his prime would actually pick up trash?

And this, was exactly what Chen Yurou and her daughter had asked Shi Lei to do for the past eight years.

Shi Lei was stooping down to pick up a water bottle that had been thrown away by someone else, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice shouting, "Catch the thief! Catch the thief!"

Shi Lei immediately raised his head and saw Chen Yurou chasing after a young man.

He threw the thing in his hand away and walked in the direction of the thief.

"Stop, return the item to her …" Shi Lei rushed in front of the thief, stretched out both of his arms and stopped his.

Just then, Chen Yurou caught up to the thief while gasping for breath. She immediately grabbed the thief's arm and pulled, "Give me back the jade pendant!"

Jade pendant?

Only then did Shi Lei realize that the thief's left hand was tightly holding a blood-red jade pendant.

It was the only relic that Old Master Chen had left for Chen Yurou.

Just as Shi Lei was in a daze, the thief took out a dagger from his waist and stabbed it towards Chen Yurou: "Ni MB, I'll kill you."

"Be careful!" Shi Lei subconsciously yelled as he rushed forward, knocking Chen Yurou to the side.

The dagger pierced into Shi Lei's stomach.

Chen Yurou turned around, and seeing the scene in front of him, she cried out in alarm, "No …"

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