Chapter 73 Zhao Erxing was a good-for-nothing, the kind of man even his fellow villagers thought was hopeless—and he agreed with them. But even a good-for-nothing has a weakness, and his was his mother, Zhou Caie. Zhou Caie married into Guihua Village at seventeen. In Zhao Erxing’s memories, his mother had suffered domestic abuse for as long as he could remember. She got beaten if the food was cold, if she snored in her sleep, if she swept the floor too slowly... Zhao Erxing’s childhood up to the…