Unable to sleep all night, when my husband got up at four in the morning, I pretended to be asleep. His large face came close to mine, and his warm lips pressed against my cheek.

"It's a pity, you shouldn't have known so much," he murmured.

The Zhang Family Dumpling Shop had been in business for so many years, how many people had been killed? No wonder there were always missing persons flyers plastered on telephone poles and walls.

Our neighbor Auntie once told me that my husband's first wife, Xiao Li, got angry during a quarrel and ran away to work and eloped with someone else. She even praised my husband's family for being generous, giving her in-laws seventy to eighty thousand to find her.

Look, the next one in line should be me, running away to work and elope with someone else...

The sun rose halfway up, and the two maids didn't know how many times they had come to check on me.

Embarrassed to lie down again, I propped up my soft body and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. As soon as the toothbrush went into my mouth, I started dry heaving.

I vomited until tears came out, and my lower abdomen ached faintly. Checking my underwear, there was a bit of coffee-colored substance.

Calculating carefully, it had been over ten days since my last period. Could it be that I'm pregnant?

With all the commotion I made, the two maids quickly gathered around me. I asked one of them to go downstairs and buy a pregnancy test.

...

Trembling, I went to take the test—two red lines. Oh dear, my life, I won't be able to keep it soon.

Baby, if you come now, it's just a death sentence, isn't it?