A man in whom she had placed her hopes for a warm family.
Tang Ning's career had died, killed by the family this man had given her—a truth she only realized many years later.
Yet it was all too late: her father had retired, her older brother had met with an accident, and she had become a housewife devoid of self-esteem and income, growing silent under her mother-in-law's mounting fault-finding, defeated by her son's defiance, and depressed by her husband's enduring indifference.
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