I lost my job.

I silently returned home all the way.

From the stairway to the door of my unit, it was already filled with garbage.

A foul smell emanated.

Took out the key to open the door, but found the key couldn't fit in. The lock had been changed!

My own home!

The lock was changed!

I didn't even know!

I felt a wave of sorrow, even a bit like laughing.

No one was home, turned around and drove to my father-in-law's house.

"Knock knock knock," the door opened.

My mother-in-law saw me and immediately shut the door, nervously: "What are you doing here, you rapist? Want to drag us down? Get lost!"

"Let Yu Dan come out, I need to talk with her."

"There's nothing to talk about! You two should get divorced soon!"

My mother-in-law glared at me fiercely.

The little brother-in-law who used to come over to our house to eat and drink, and to borrow my car to go pick up girls, now grabbed a baseball bat and waved it at me: "Take one step in and I'll kill you!"

The hearts of people are treacherous, the world's sentiments are cold.

The indifference from family is the most painful.

My family is from another province, a backward mountainous area.

My wife is a local.

I've been working here for fifteen years, rising from a laborer to a workshop supervisor.

I ask myself, I've never wronged my father-in-law's family.

But at this moment, looking at their hideous faces, I realized that all these years, I’ve been dancing with wolves.

I'm only grateful that my hometown is in the mountains, my elderly parents don't know how to use the internet, so they wouldn't worry about me.

"I'll talk to him!"

My wife Yu Dan appeared at the door, coldly said to me.

My wife and I were introduced to each other.

She was a sales clerk at a department store.

When I was young, I also pursued her eagerly because she was beautiful and a local.

After getting married, we had some warm days.

But soon, marital conflicts appeared.

We had incompatible personalities.

I'm a very introverted person, have no hobbies, just like to immerse myself in the factory.

But my wife, although with a low income, had many pursuits in life, liked drinking coffee, watching movies, had many petty-bourgeois sentiments.

After a quarrel, from my wife's outburst, I learned that this city girl never held me, a man from the mountains, in high regard.

I was the 'Phoenix Man' she despised.

She always felt it was a loss to marry me.

When she went on a blind date with me, it was my salary she was interested in, not me as a person.

We grew increasingly estranged.

Half a year ago, she had an affair.

That man was her high school classmate, and they hooked up during a class reunion.

I was angry, I was in pain, I got drunk, and I wanted to divorce her.

But I wavered, I endured.

Not because I was weak, not because I had a fetish for being cuckolded, but because our daughter just entered high school!

I don't need to explain how important high school is.

I hoped my daughter could get into a good university and have a bright future.

I didn't want the family upheaval to affect her studies.

So, I endured.

I read in the newspaper before that every time after college entrance exams, it's the peak season for parents to get divorced.

I knew it was true.

Just because "To the world, every parent is compassionate."