He knew she was afraid of him, knew that she had married him because the village chief's son harassed her, only then agreeing to become his wife.
Yet he still felt very happy about it.
But when the news of the reinstatement of the college entrance exams broke, he was already in the military. He didn't know about her pregnancy until his parents wired him, and he rushed back only to discover that she had aborted their child to return to the city.
At that moment, he felt the urge to kill, his fingers squeezing her throat, his eyes bloodshot with fury. But in the end, he let go, "Why, why?"
She looked at him weakly and coldly spat out, "I want to go back to the city."
Her few simple words blew apart everything he had.
He stormed out of the house and ran into the mountains, where he broke a tree as big as a bowl with his palms.
What he had wanted in marrying her was for her to bear his child; only with a child, he thought, would she definitely stay, willingly by his side.
