A Silent Dog Can Also Bite
After work, Yangzi walked slowly on the snowy road home, her steps heavy. Her down jacket wrapped around her frail body, and the crunching sound of her footsteps was like some kind of noisy music that annoyed her.
The northern winter days were too short. By the time Yangzi walked from work to the dimly lit street, she finally reached her building. A few hundred meters took her half an hour.
Yangzi involuntarily glanced up at her own window; there was no light. She sighed softly, a sigh so faint that no one could hear it, like a light groan, a subtle pain only she could understand.
She climbed up to the fourth floor, unlocked the door, and turned on the light. The room was empty. Yangzi put down her bag and sat on the sofa, feeling a bit tired.
The phone rang. She knew it was him again, saying he wouldn’t be home for dinner. After hanging up, Yangzi leaned back on the sofa, closed her eyes, and felt a deep sadness.
Her son was in his third year of high school and stayed at school, and her husband often came home late. Yangzi had gotten used to these days. She often went downstairs to play mahjong with others to fill the void and loneliness, to pass the time.
Yangzi was a very elegant woman, with fair skin and a tall figure. She always carried a sense of pride. Even in her forties, she was still as slender as in her youth.
Her husband, on the other hand, was shorter than her but more cunning. He worked at a bank, and since being promoted to bank manager, he had more social engagements and had gained some weight, but he spent less time having dinner at home.
He was a romantic man. He gave her flowers on her birthday, a necklace on their wedding anniversary, and brought her different gifts every time he went on a business trip. Yangzi felt she was the happiest woman.
Yangzi liked to go shopping with her best friends from work on Sundays. One day at the mall, she saw a very stylish woman wearing the same fur coat as hers. The color, style, and belt were identical. Her fur coat was bought by her husband during a business trip to the provincial capital and cost thousands of yuan.
Last winter, while taking a taxi, Yangzi suddenly saw her husband with that stylish woman, walking out of a large shopping mall. That woman was still wearing the same fur coat. Yangzi finally understood, but she didn’t get out of the taxi.
When she got home, Yangzi cried bitterly and was ill for a week. Her once-glowing face suddenly developed many fine wrinkles.
Yangzi understood the real reason their marriage was deteriorating. She had thought he was under a lot of work pressure. She finally realized why he often came home late; she always thought he had many social engagements.
Finally, she understood the words her friends had warned her about: a silent dog can also bite, and it bites deeply.
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