Wang Lianxiang awoke quietly, her eyes taking in the jagged rocks and indistinctly shadowed forest. She finally realized she had escaped from that hellhole.
She suddenly cried out in a burst of emotion, but dared not make a sound, raising her hand to bite her sleeve, sobbing uncontrollably.
After her elder sister remarried, she entered Huicheng, enticed by the prospect of a better life and followed. Only because her brother-in-law spoke to her a few times, she was hated by her sister, tricked into finding a good husband, but instead sold to a small village thousands of miles away.
The man who bought her was over forty, old, ugly, and filthy… Wang Lianxiang felt sick looking at him, how could she willingly live with him and bear children. She tried to escape but was caught twice, each time suffering a harsh beating…
