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Chapter 3: The Broken Cup

I do not remember reaching for the cup. I remember the sound of porcelain breaking, and then Li Qin's voice rising. The cup lay in pieces on the floor. It had been expensive, she said. Eight thousand. She stood over me with her phone in her hand. "You did that on purpose! You are jealous because my husband loves me!" I said nothing. She called the police. Two officers arrived and looked at the fragments, then at me. "She broke it," Li Qin said. "I want compensation. Eighty thousand." The older officer frowned. "Ma'am, calm down. Did you agree on the compensation?" "She wants eighty thousand. I do not have it." "No money?" Li Qin shouted. "Then why did you break it? You are trying to cheat me!" The officer sighed. "The amount is large and there is a dispute. You will both have to come to the station and give statements." Li Qin nodded eagerly. "Yes! Take her away!" I stood and smoothed my coat. I had kept the rules my whole life. Now, at this age, I was going to a police station. Fine. I walked toward the door. Li Qin and Xiaoxiao followed, triumphant. My hand had just touched the handle when the door opened from outside. Lin Jianguo stood there holding a cake box, smiling. "Xiaoxiao, look what Dad brought you..." His voice died in his throat.

第 4 章

Chapter 4: The Cake

A retired teacher takes a tutoring job in a neighboring city and finds a family photograph on the wall: her husband of thirty years, smiling beside another woman and another daughter.

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