The years she spent with him, after she later left the Ruan Family, she thought that aside from the Ruanlin matriarch being an unkind mother-in-law and showing favoritism, her days had actually been rather happy.
She had no worries about food or clothing, Ruan Jiandang might not have been as successful as the eldest branch of the family, but over the years he had never let their family of three go hungry, and he handed over the money he earned for her to manage; his only flaw was probably being too nitpicky.
But then.
What use was there in thinking so much, it was too late for regrets now.
She had been married off to another man—although her current man was able-bodied, he was incompetent, loved to drink, and would often beat her when he was drunk, and now he wanted her, at her age, to bear a child.
But she never imagined she'd be so unlucky.
In the Ruan Family, baby girls were doted on, yet she gave birth to three sons.