Beneath the Lies, a Long Wait

Jiang Mingwei came from a good family and married Qin Jiangyuan, a poor scholar, against her family's wishes. For five years she put her connections and her money into his career, and it worked. She was pregnant when she walked in on the fact that he had a fifteen-year-old daughter he had kept from her. The wedding five years earlier and the marriage certificate had both been staged by him. He had never intended to stay with her. As the lies came apart one at a time he turned on her, and she did not know that for seven years a man had been waiting in the darkest part of her own family, sharpening a knife to get her out.