I was born with a "crow's mouth"—a jinx. Anything bad I said came true. So, from the moment I could understand the world, I never spoke a word. My six-year-old son accidentally bumped into my pregnant sister-in-law. My husband, furious, sent him to a "dog training camp" for discipline. My son had been bitten by a dog before; he was terrified of them. I tried to stop my husband, kneeling and banging my head on the floor until I bled. Caleb helped his sister-in-law, Larissa, up, gently stroking her swollen belly. But his words to me were cold and heartless: "Don't think I can't see it. He did this because you put him up to it. You scheming mute. Your dirty blood runs in his veins. If I don't teach him early, he'll grow up to be scum just like you." "Send him to learn some rules. Let him know what respect is. And let this be a lesson to you: don't touch what you shouldn't touch!" When I finally found my son, he was in a cage with five vicious dogs. His body had been torn apart. I pieced together my son's small, broken body. For the first time in over twenty years, I opened my mouth and spoke my first sentence: "Caleb, I want a blood debt paid in blood. I want your family ruined and dead." 1 When I returned to the villa holding the incomplete pieces of my son's body, Caleb was in the garden, personally planting roses for Larissa. Blood-red roses, blooming delicately. Caleb looked at Larissa with eyes full of tenderness. But when he saw me, his gaze instantly turned to disgust. "Selena, look at you. Neither human nor ghost. is the Gu family going bankrupt that we can't afford to keep you? Disheveled like a beggar." "You think this will make me pity you? You can't teach your child well, only playing these scheming games. Can't you learn something from Larissa?" Larissa glanced at me triumphantly, her voice soft: "Selena is just worried about JJ. If I had been more careful and avoided JJ, he wouldn't have bumped into me. Selena must be blaming me. Bring JJ back quickly." Caleb frowned: "JJ was corrupted by this bitch. Sending him to the dog training camp to learn rules is saving him. It has nothing to do with you." He turned to me: "Why aren't you going back to clean yourself up? Don't be an eyesore here." I held JJ's body, looking at Caleb expressionlessly. I was born with a jinxed mouth. Whatever I said would inexplicably come true. Since I was sensible, I stopped speaking. I used to hate why this curse fell on me. Now, I only hope my words come true as soon as possible, so they get the punishment they deserve. Because I hadn't spoken for a long time, my voice was hoarse and unpleasant: "Caleb, you're right. The Gu family is going bankrupt." Caleb was shocked to hear me speak: "Selena, you can talk!" Then his shock turned to anger: "You really are scheming. To cheat my sympathy, you pretended to be mute for so many years!" "Can't hold it in now? Let me tell you, the heir of the Gu family can only be Larissa's child. Don't even think about it. If you dare to have any designs on the child in her belly, I won't spare you." He didn't look at me again: "Even one look at you makes me sick. Throw away that dirty thing in your hands and get out." My hands holding JJ's body trembled. He was already dead, yet his own father called him a "dirty thing." I remembered every night when he raised his tender little face and asked me: "Mommy, if I'm a good boy, will Daddy tell me a story?" "On my birthday, will Daddy take me to the amusement park? He promised me before." My heart ached violently. Trembling, holding JJ's body, tears burst from my eyes, and I rasped: "Caleb, this isn't a dirty thing. This is your son JJ's body. As you wished, he is dead!" Caleb froze, then sneered: "Selena, is this why you stopped pretending to be mute? Because it hindered your acting? Cursing your own son, you are truly terrifying." He snatched JJ's body from my arms, glanced at it casually, and said with cruel intent to expose me: "Since you say this pile of rotten meat is JJ, let the dogs recognize it. Is it human meat, or animal meat you found for your performance?" 2 Soon, the butler brought two large black dogs. Caleb threw the bundle in his hand in front of the two dogs. Smelling blood, they excitedly dragged out the remaining limbs and began to feast. I went crazy, rushing forward to snatch JJ back, but was tightly held back by the butler. I screamed heart-rendingly at Caleb: "Caleb, that's your son! He was bitten to death by dogs, how can you feed him to dogs again? Are you even human?!" Caleb carefully blocked Larissa, afraid the smell of blood on the ground would scare her. He looked at me mockingly: "Selena, your acting is quite realistic. You really put a lot of thought into deceiving me. But use your brain. JJ went to learn rules; he is safe and sound at the dog training camp." "In a week, I will bring him back myself. No matter how much of a scene you make now, I won't agree to your demands." I hated him so much my gums bled from clenching my teeth. Like a madwoman, I bit and hit the people holding me back, finally snatching back the remaining body parts. The black dogs were eating happily; suddenly deprived of food, they bared their teeth to bite me. Caleb frowned and had the dogs taken away just in time. He had run out of patience with me. Not wanting to look at me again, he supported Larissa and turned to leave. I shouted at their backs with hatred: "My child is dead, and hers won't live either!" Since Caleb's older brother died, he had taken care of his sister-in-law, Larissa, all the way into bed. At first, Caleb had an affair in secret, trying every way to keep me from finding out. Until one day, Caleb brought back a bruised Larissa, looking at me with strange, cold eyes. He slapped me hard: "Selena, I didn't expect you to be so vicious. If I hadn't arrived in time, Larissa would have been raped and killed. She's pregnant!" That was the first time Caleb hit me. I was bewildered, not knowing what happened, enduring the grievance to ask in sign language. But he had no patience to wait for me to finish gesturing, warning me: "Stop acting so pitiful. I won't believe you anymore." "If you can't tolerate Larissa, I don't mind divorcing you to marry her." From then on, Caleb and Larissa's relationship was no longer hidden. Even his mother, Old Mrs. Gu, couldn't do anything about him. I thought about divorce countless times, but because I couldn't get custody of JJ, I never took that step. In the end, it caused JJ to die without a whole body. I cried holding JJ's body until I fainted. When I woke up again, I was dragged by my hair by Caleb to Larissa's bedside. Larissa's face was pale. She looked at me with tears in her eyes: "Selena, I know you don't like me and think I stole Caleb. But the child is innocent. How could you be so cruel, trading my child's life for your ability to speak..." The crow's mouth curse came true. Her child was gone. I curled my lips into a cold smile. Seeing my reaction, Caleb became even angrier. He kicked me in the chest, and I spat out a mouthful of blood. "Bitch! I wondered how you suddenly could speak. You must have used some black magic to exchange Larissa's child for it!" "I've been too soft on you, making you forget your place. Now that Larissa's child is gone, you must pay the price!" "Want to speak? Wait for your next life!" Caleb brought a bowl of herbal medicine, pinched my neck, and tried to pour it into my mouth. I kept my mouth shut tight, struggling desperately. He pried open my jaw. Watching the medicine about to be poured in, I was too desperate to resist. If I drank this bowl of medicine, I would become a real mute. Caleb, your heart is truly cruel! 3 "Stop! Stop it! What a sin!" Old Mrs. Gu's arrival interrupted Caleb's actions. I fell from his hands to the ground, coughing violently, mouth full of the taste of blood. Old Mrs. Gu looked at the farce before her and sighed deeply. She helped me up. "Selena, are you okay?" I struggled to say a few words: "I'm fine." Old Mrs. Gu trembled all over. She said in disbelief: "Selena, you... you can speak?" She seemed to age ten years in an instant, slumping, unable to stand, old tears streaming down, muttering: "It's over, it's over..." Caleb looked at her strangely and asked: "Mom, what's wrong?" Old Mrs. Gu's voice was hoarse: "Years ago, the Gu family faced a crisis. Your father paid a great price for a divination. The prophecy said as long as you married a mute girl with a matching horoscope, the Gu family's fortune would be preserved." "Until the mute girl speaks, and the Gu family... is ruined!" The divination was right, but it didn't calculate that I pretended to be mute because of my crow's mouth. Caleb didn't believe it, scoffing at this explanation: "This is superstition to trick you old people. Our Gu family's business today is earned by ourselves. What does it have to do with a woman like Selena?" "If she really had such great ability, how could she not even teach her own son well?" Old Mrs. Gu hesitated. She had doubted too, but since Caleb married Selena, the Gu family's business improved rapidly. Old Mr. Gu died two years after the divination. She had to believe it on one hand, and hoped for luck on the other. Hearing about JJ, she perked up a bit. She doted on JJ the most. "Where's JJ? Why haven't I seen him?" Caleb looked at me with a sneer: "Selena couldn't teach him well, so I sent him to the dog training camp to learn some rules." I looked at Old Mrs. Gu and rasped: "JJ is already dead." Caleb couldn't stand me lying repeatedly. He said impatiently: "How long are you going to talk nonsense? Are you going to say that pile of rotten meat is JJ again? Servants, burn that pile of meat to ashes and scatter it in the rose soil as fertilizer." Watching JJ's body being thrown into the fire, this time I didn't struggle. JJ was gone. Keeping his shell had no meaning. Better to burn it and let him leave this world cleanly, to be reborn into a good family in the next life, living a happy and stable life. Old Mrs. Gu looked at Caleb, then at me, momentarily unsure who to believe. She hurried away towards the dog training camp. After Old Mrs. Gu left, Larissa said tearfully: "My poor child, didn't even get to see the world. He would have grown as big as JJ, calling us Mom and Dad." "Caleb, do you think we'll have children in the future?" Caleb kissed her forehead painfully, comforting her: "We will have more in the future." He looked at me with even more disgust: "Selena, I let you off just now because my mom came, but I must teach you a lesson." "Since Larissa's child is gone, the child in your belly will compensate her." Watching Caleb walk towards me step by step, I backed away in fear until I fell to the ground with nowhere to retreat. My voice trembled: "Caleb, you already killed JJ, are you going to kill another child of mine? He is your child too!" Caleb paused. Seeing his hesitation, Larissa spoke up again: "Caleb, no need to do this for me. My status in this family is awkward anyway. How can my child compare to Selena's? Although you said the Gu family heir would be my child, no one took it seriously." Caleb said solemnly: "I have the final say in this house. Everyone takes what I say seriously. Selena isn't worth a single hair on your head." He hesitated no more, raising his foot and stomping hard on my stomach. 4 I struggled desperately in pain but couldn't move him an inch. Blood flowed from beneath me, staining the carpet red. Feeling the child leaving me, I looked at Caleb and used my last bit of strength to say: "Caleb, you will never have children again in your life. You will be lonely forever and die in the belly of a dog!" Only when I fainted from pain did he withdraw his foot, leaving a sentence: "Let JJ stay in the dog training camp for another month. Remember, every extra day he stays is because of you!" When I woke up again, I was in bed, clothes changed. The nanny sat by the bed wiping tears. Seeing me wake up, she rambled: "How could Mr. Gu be so cruel, disregarding your life for a vixen?" "You had such a good relationship before. Mr. Gu learned sign language for you, spent all his free time with you and JJ. We all thought it was sweet." "But since Mr. Gu's brother died and that vixen moved in, why did Mr. Gu change?" She couldn't understand how a person could change just like that, treating someone he once cherished like trash. I patted her hand, saying nothing more: "The Gu family will scatter soon. You should find a new place early." I went to JJ's room, folding his small clothes one by one, putting his favorite toys into a box. Everything reminded me of his innocent, cute smiling face, clingily calling me Mommy. Tears flowed endlessly, but no small hands would ever wipe them dry for me again. I burned the sorted items for JJ in the garden, talking to him constantly. JJ never heard my voice when he was alive; I wonder if he could recognize it. Caleb came over at some point. He said deeply: "Selena, you really commit to the act. Since you want a child so much, I can give you another one. Stop these disgusting tricks." He roughly dragged me back to the bedroom and pushed me onto the bed. His breath on my neck made me tremble with disgust. I struggled desperately, hitting his face and body hard, but he held my hands tight. During the violent struggle, the wedding photo hanging on the wall fell and hit Caleb. Caleb got up in pain, angrily threw the frame aside. When he saw us embracing sweetly in the photo, he suddenly froze. Not knowing what he remembered, he left the bed with a complex expression, sat slowly on the sofa, and lit a cigarette. I pulled my torn clothes together and took out the divorce agreement prepared long ago from the nightstand. Putting the agreement in front of him, I said: "Caleb, sign it. Let's divorce." Caleb looked up at me: "Selena, don't threaten me with divorce. Can you leave me? You know the story of the boy who cried wolf. Use a trick too much, and it won't work." "If I really sign this today, it'll be too late for you to cry and regret tomorrow." Ignoring his sarcasm, I said calmly: "Divorcing me, you can marry Larissa legitimately. As for whether I regret it tomorrow, that's my business." "Or, Caleb, you don't want to divorce me? Or you dare not sign?" Caleb sneered: "Selena, who do you think you are? My Gu family is rich and powerful, we have everything. If my family hadn't forced me to marry you back then, could you have married me?" "Slept by me for seven or eight years, who would want you after leaving me?" I ignored his ridicule, just insisting: "Then sign it." Caleb put away the sneer on his face, staring at me motionless.
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