I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 80 Yu Mei secretly moves out of the rented compound (She begins to teach herself English tra

Yu Mei and her boyfriend moved out, and her mother-in-law Liu Xiulan moved into Old Liu's house with Chen Lixia, and the three of them started living together.

Yu Mei didn't want others to see her current dejection and helplessness, so she chose to keep to herself with a shred of dignity and a touch of shame.

She and Chen Lixin moved to a three-room mud-brick house with red tiles, about three miles away from the compound. The east room was occupied by another family of three, whose husband worked in a small coal mine in the city.

My wife looks a bit scary; her big eyes look like they're about to pop out. My son is fourteen or fifteen years old and seems a bit dim-witted!

The tenants in this house were also extremely poor, with no household appliances whatsoever.

Since there was no well in the house, people had to go to a water house a mile away and carry water with a long carrying pole to get water for drinking.

Before Yu Mei arrived, in the west room of Yang Zhi and Liu Yue's family compound, there was a 14-inch black and white television set, which was initially showing the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber".

When Chen Lixin had nothing to do, he would go to the east room and sit on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) to chat with the pretty younger sisters of the Tiger Women.

What's the point of a young man talking to a good-looking middle-aged woman?

Yu Mei ate all two jin of Fuji apples that Chen Lixin bought for her, and then she didn't have any money left to buy more.

Then Chen Lixin went to his mother's compound to ask for some money, bought her two pounds of apples, and then ate them all in a short while.

Yu Mei was left with an apple sometimes, and an empty stomach sometimes. This continued until she gave birth.

So, helplessly, she gave birth to her daughter and was in postpartum confinement at the city's Central Hospital. She was also lacking millet and eggs to eat.

She stayed in the hospital for seven days before returning to the west room of the tiger women's rented house.

She was in such a sorry state that Chen Lixin's previously good demeanor instantly changed.

He spent his days in Old Liu's rented room in the compound, watching people play mahjong during the day and watching the TV series "The Emperor Qianlong's Adventures" at night. He wouldn't go home until after midnight.

The next day, when he ran out of millet and eggs, he went to his mother's house to get some money to buy more. When he returned home empty-handed, his mother refused to give him any more money to buy millet and eggs for Yu Mei to eat during her postpartum period.

Once, Yu Mei and Chen Lixin even fought over an egg because Yu Mei was eating it, trying to stop her from eating more and telling her to eat less and not to eat it all at once.

Then Chen Lixin went to his neighbor Lao Liang's house, which was more than 100 meters away, and borrowed 30 yuan. He then bought millet and eggs for Yu Mei.

Old Liang was over sixty years old. He had a son in his thirties who was unmarried. Zou Laqian also introduced him to a rural girl for a blind date. The girl was quite pretty, and the two hit it off. However, not long after, two of the girl's brothers came and took her home.

A month passed like this. Yu Mei endured him for a month, telling herself not to be angry and to leave this man and this dilapidated house once the baby was a month old.

She's a month old now, and she hasn't combed her hair for a month. Her long hair is all messy, like a brooding hen.

She needed to go to the hair salon to have her hair done. But she didn't have a single penny in her pocket; how could she possibly get her long, messy hair done?

She went to check on the tiger women's room in the east room of the tenants. The tiger women's mother happened to be visiting, and Yu Mei borrowed five yuan from the old lady to get her hair done.

The tiger girls' mother didn't lend Yu Mei the money, and Yu Mei returned to the west room feeling very dejected and sad. She cried alone for half the night.

Yu Mei rallied her spirits. She refused to give up. Why was her fate worse than others, especially Yu Han? She knew all about Yu Han's involvement in night school and her business dealings.

Then she picked up her books again and began to study English translation on her own; she wanted to become a female translator of foreign languages.

Yu Mei went to a scrap metal recycling station, spent some money to buy high school English books, and then went to a bookstore to buy two foreign language translation books.

Then she studied on her own for a while, but even though she thought this way, her actions were different. Married girls are different from the girls she used to be.

She began to lose focus on the mundane details of daily life, and the slight strain on her child!

She then realized how much her mother missed her at home; she hadn't been home to see her mother for over a year!

Back in the courtyard, I heard from my second aunt that my mother, Diao Yan, was currently suffering from some dementia and was asking around about my whereabouts. On the one hand, there was Diao Yan's health problem, and on the other hand, there was the fact that I was never going back. This had already become the talk of the village gossip!

How should she face this, and how should she regain her dignity and self-respect?

In any case, she should go see her mother who cares about her; as for the others, they are just there to watch her make a fool of herself!

Yang Zhi and Liu Yue's brother and sister-in-law ignored her, and only then did she realize that she had come here and was not going back. They were happy, and they no longer cared that she was going home to eat idle food.

Her marriage was a conspiracy between Zou Laqian and Chen Lixin's two companies. Zou Laqian's goal was money, while the Chen family's goal was a beautiful wife for free. Everyone wants a free lunch, and flies don't land on eggs without cracks. As long as there's a crack, someone will sneak in!

Or perhaps Zou Laxian, harboring admiration for Chen Lixin, betrayed her to the man she admired.

Zou Laqian sold Yu Mei to the Chen family, but then she got nothing in return. Then she started to turn things around. Zou Laqian and her new girlfriend Zhu Yu, who lived in the same compound, conspired to take Yu Mei with them and then resell her to those old bachelors.

Of course, this was their plan behind the scenes. Later, their true colors were revealed, but Yu Mei was not bewitched by them and continued to live a difficult life with Chen Lixin by staying by his side.

At the same time, her beauty will attract lecherous men. She fights them off, enduring hardship while pursuing her dreams and growing up on her own! Her growth is marked by a sharp edge!

She didn't want to hide anymore. She hadn't done anything wrong, so why was she afraid to face her family? Marriage and love are matters of freedom, even though her wedding was very simple.

Chen Lixin's maternal uncle was a construction contractor, and his aunt was a housewife. His aunt was a very kind person and a believer in the church.

When Chen Lixin brought Yu Mei to his house, his aunt took a liking to the girl at first sight. She was beautiful and educated. Chen Lixin and the old lady said that she had graduated from high school.

Yu Mei only graduated from junior high school. It's obvious that this mother and daughter want to use Yu Mei's fake high school education to show off that their Chen family has gotten a highly educated fairy as a wife for free.

Then, his aunt knew that the Chen family didn't have the money to hold the wedding, so his family had to pay for some simple things and hold a "church-style wedding ceremony" for Chen Lixin and Yang Yumei in the church mentioned in his aunt's letter. At that time, there were more than a dozen couples getting married in the church!

My aunt is in her fifties and is more than ten years younger than my uncle. She is very thoughtful and took some photos of Yu Mei's wedding to keep as a memento for the young couple!

It just so happens that she's going back to her parents' home. With the photos, she won't have to worry about anything else, and she can shut up all the gossipy women at home and outside.

As for why she didn't go home, why did she hold the wedding when no one from her parents' family was there?

Because she had no family members at all; her only family member was her mother, Diao Yan.

If she has family, why hasn't she gone home these past few days since she came to this strange city? Why hasn't anyone come looking for her? It seems her life or death has nothing to do with them. So, she came here, and her aunt had already held their wedding more than ten days ago.

Yu Mei continued reading English books, pursuing her dreams and aspirations, and then prepared to return to her hometown to see her mother, Diao Yan.