Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

Jiang Sen chuckled, "Wife, I was just angry, how was I supposed to run into a mad dog biting me as soon as I stepped outside!"

"If a dog bites you, you bite the dog back? Are you stupid?"

"That can't be done!"

"That's settled then! Let's go! Time to get back to work!"

Watching the two walk away talking, Huang Dajun stood up unwillingly, spat fiercely, and cursed, "You just wait!"

He glanced at the gate a few more times, then turned and left.

What he heard from Jiang Sen seemed different from what Bai Jing said. Could it be that he had been tricked by that woman?

He took the bus home, and after many twists and turns, he walked into an alley.

Huang Liping lives in a single room here.

Before I even went inside, I could hear the child crying.

He pushed open the door and saw Huang Liping comforting a child on the messy kang (a heated brick bed).

She's nowhere near her former youthful and beautiful self; she looks like a haggard old woman now.

"I already told you I have no money, why are you here again?" Huang Liping scooted closer to the kang (a heated brick bed) after seeing Huang Dajun.

Huang Dajun looked back and forth, then rummaged through the matchbox on the table with his hand.

He threw the dirty clothes off the only stool and sat down.

"Whose child is this bastard?"

Huang Liping was taken aback. "Why are you asking this?"

"Hmph! What are you doing? What do you think I'm doing?" Huang Dajun crossed his legs. "I ran into that bitch Bai Jing today. She told me..." He stopped.

Huang Liping became a little anxious, "What did she say?"

Huang Dajun paused for a moment, then suddenly laughed, "Damn it! Whether it's the older brother's or the younger brother's, aren't they all descendants of the Jiang family? They still want to use me?"

"What are you going to do?" Huang Liping asked anxiously.

Huang Dajun stood up and said, "What do you think? The Jiang family is shameless; they don't acknowledge this grandson. Are you just going to raise him like this? Without a father, he can't even get a household registration. If you don't get some benefits, how will you support him in the future?"

"No, listen to me, I... Brother! Don't go..."

Huang Liping hurriedly put down her child and got off the kang (a heated brick bed) to chase after Huang Dajun.

The child suddenly started crying again, so she quickly came back to comfort him.

Looking at the child, Huang Liping burst into tears, and several times she thought about just strangling the child to death.

Cleaning toilets was shameful enough, but now that there's a child, it's even more embarrassing to face outsiders.

Jiang Dayou and Bai Jing vehemently denied that the child belonged to the Jiang family. Jiang Sen turned against her, and Jiang Lei went to prison. After gaining nothing and having an extra child, her parents kicked her out of the house.

She has no choice but to hide here alone with her child.

Without a father, a child cannot be registered and will become an unregistered resident.

If she hadn't agreed to Jiang Lei's idea back then, she wouldn't be in this predicament now!

But she couldn't bring herself to do it, and could only wail and slap herself.

I knew this, why should I be at the beginning?

It's too late!

Jiang Dayou and Bai Jing were eating in the small room.

Bai Jing proudly recounted her encounter with Huang Dajun to Jiang Dayou.

She also vividly described the conversation between the two, especially how she shifted the blame onto Jiang Sen.

Jiang Dayou nodded. "That beast, since he doesn't acknowledge me, we can't let him get away with it. You did the right thing! If we can't deal with him, let others deal with him."

Bai Jing smiled and said, "Look at your son, he doesn't resemble you at all, he might not even be your child."

Jiang Dayou was taken aback, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he shook his head and said, "No, Xiaomei is not that kind of person."

Bai Jing was displeased. "Not that kind of person? How do you know? You're with me five days a week. Do you still have to pay your grain tax when you go back?"

Jiang Dayou frowned. "What kind of talk is that?"

"Did I say something wrong?"

The two then began to argue.

Before they could exchange more than a few words, it seemed like someone had come in from outside.

"Jiang Dayou lives here, right?" a man's voice asked from outside.

Someone chimed in, "It's in that room, everything's at home, go ahead!"

"Who is it?" Jiang Dayou stood up and opened the door. "Who are you...?"

"Hey, it really is you!" Huang Dajun swaggered in, and Jiang Dayou took two steps back, there was really no room behind him. "You're looking for me? Who are you?"

"Huang Dajun?" Bai Jing was quite surprised.

"Look, isn't this someone who recognizes me?" Huang Dajun glanced at the room, which wasn't much bigger than Huang Liping's place. "No wonder you encouraged me to go find Jiang Sen. You guys wanted to get that house yourselves and were just using me as a pawn!"

Bai Jing's expression changed, and she grabbed Jiang Dayou's arm, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Huang Dajun kicked a basin on the ground, "Then tell me, whose child is that bastard my sister gave birth to? Jiang Sen or Jiang Lei? If you think I'm an idiot, you should at least find out who I, Huang Dajun, am. With your petty schemes, who are you trying to embarrass?"

Jiang Dayou and Bai Jing were both startled, never expecting Huang Dajun to be such a reckless and unruly person.

"No, is there some misunderstanding?" Jiang Dayou quickly reassured her, "We haven't been in contact with Liping for a long time."

"Ask that slut next to you! She ran into me today and told me herself that Jiang Sen got my sister pregnant, then dumped her and went to the countryside! Ugh! I just don't understand, do you think everyone else is stupid except you? Huh?"

"I..." Bai Jing was speechless. She had set a trap for herself and now she was trapped in it. She was so anxious that she kept grabbing Jiang Dayou, not knowing what to do.

Jiang Dayou patted her hand, telling her to calm down.

He said to Huang Dajun, "We're saying this for her own good. After all, they had a good relationship. Now that Jiang Sen is back, no matter whose child it is, as long as Liping insists it's Jiang Sen's, there's nothing he can do if he doesn't acknowledge it. Why not take Liping to this big house to enjoy a life of luxury instead of letting some other woman have it?"

Bai Jing's eyes lit up when she heard this; her husband was so clever.

"That's right, that's exactly what I meant! You know, I used to really like Liping, and I was thinking about how hard it was for her to raise a child alone. Wasn't that for her own good? How can you be so ungrateful?"

Huang Dajun sneered, "You still want to make a fool of me? I went back and asked around. It was your two bastard sons who came up with the idea. He messed with my sister and framed Jiang Sen, trying to make him take the blame. Now you're saying it's for my sister's own good? Do you really think you're so smart?"

After he finished speaking, he jumped up, picked up the thermos on the table, and smashed it on the ground with a "smash".

Bai Jing screamed in fright.

Jiang Dayou was also startled and stepped back to shield Bai Jing.

"What are you doing?" he demanded. "Your shameless sister seduced my two sons! I was trying to save face for her and was thinking of her in every way, but you not only don't appreciate my kindness, but you even dare to smash things! Come with me to the police station!"

Huang Dajun completely ignored his bluff and sneered, "Don't try that with me! Let me tell you, that child is from your Jiang family. Either you take the child and raise him, or you give me ten yuan a month!"

"Don't even think about it!"

"I'll give you three days. I'll be back in three days. If you don't give me an explanation by then, I'll expose this! I'll put up big-character posters about you, ruin your reputation, and make you a pariah, so you can't stay in Kyoto anymore!"