Finally, after Old Madam Wang created a scene when one of Madam Wang's senior classmates came to deliver rice and flour to their house, accusing Madam Wang of finding a new partner so quickly, claiming that she "must have been involved with him long before" and so on.
The commotion drew the neighbors from all around to watch, and Madam Wang, humiliated and enraged, nearly jumped into the river.
After that, she formally filed for divorce.
Without further explanation, she took her three children and ran away from home.
The new place where mother and children settled down was precisely the home of that senior classmate—he had been fond of Madam Wang when they were young, but alas, they were destined not to be together, so he had to marry someone else.
Unfortunately, his wife died in childbirth during their first pregnancy, and he had not remarried since.
He had never imagined that after more than a decade, there would be a chance to rekindle their past relationship.
