Ex-Girlfriend's Photo Album Was Angrily Thrown to the Ground by My Wife, and When She Looked Down at It, I Was Stunned

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After my ex-girlfriend passed away, I kept a photo of the two of us together. My wife angrily threw it to the ground, and when she looked down at it, I was stunned.

What is true love? In the end, I found the answer in two women. One was my ex-girlfriend, and the other is my current wife. From the different choices the two of them made, I knew that the choice I had made in my heart was the right one, and it had never deceived me.

My ex-girlfriend and I were childhood sweethearts. We met in middle school and then dated for many years. Besides having a very good relationship, we were also a well-known golden couple in our area, and our appearances matched very well. People often say that when children are too young, parents usually oppose them dating. But even though both of our families knew from high school onward that we had this tendency, they chose to turn a blind eye and never completely interfered with us. In their view, our relationship did not hinder our studies. Instead, it became a motivating force pushing us upward, so they were happy to see it happen. The only requirement they set was that we had to get into a university at the first-tier level or above.

We achieved that, and both of us repaid our parents' understanding by getting into key undergraduate universities. Later, when we filled out our college applications, we also chose the same university. After entering university, we were together day and night, and from that time on, we began discussing matters of building a family and careers in the future. No one could ever shake our determination to be together. But when we had graduated, found jobs, and were preparing to discuss marriage, she was diagnosed with cancer during a physical examination. At that moment, I felt utterly hopeless, but I still accompanied her through treatment. I told her that even if only for my sake, she had to choose to be strong, and we agreed that no matter what, we would definitely get married. But in the end, only half a year later, she still passed away.

My current wife also grew up with me, but at that time I did not have the slightest feeling for her beyond friendship. I knew she had always liked me, but she also knew that all my thoughts were on my ex-girlfriend. After my ex-girlfriend passed away, when I was overwhelmed with grief, it was her who stayed by my side all day encouraging me and comforting me. In addition, my family liked her very much and felt that she was kind, simple, and virtuous, and that in the future she would certainly be a good wife and loving mother. In their minds, she naturally could not compare with my ex-girlfriend in being outstanding in every way and satisfying to them, but I could not stay single for a lifetime for someone who had already passed away. So they kept urging me. Three years later, out of not wanting my family to worry anymore, and also because I felt my wife had been so good to me that I had no way to repay her, in the end, at my wife's strong request, we got married.

In the two years since we married, I have always tried hard to fulfill my responsibility as a husband and to be as good to her as possible. It can be said that I took on the role of being the pillar of a family and fulfilled the duties a man should fulfill. But it cannot be denied that deep in my heart there was still a place for my ex-girlfriend, and she still existed in my mind and had not left. I did not destroy all of her belongings, and I secretly kept the photo album of her and me. Unexpectedly, not long ago, my wife discovered it by accident. She was very angry and cried as she yelled at me, saying: "I have been so good to you and given all my care and love, but you still cannot forget one person." After scolding me, she also heavily threw the photo album onto the ground.

I felt very heartbroken. When I bent down to pick it up, I saw an envelope fall out from inside. After I opened it and looked, I found that inside there was a piece of letter paper and a bank card. The letter was written by my ex-girlfriend. It turned out that she felt she had dragged me down, and because her illness had made me so sad, she felt very sorry toward me. So later, when the doctor said her hope of recovery was very slim, she simply gave up treatment and left me all the remaining 100,000 yuan she had at the time. She also said that after she passed away, she wanted me to find a good girl again and live happily in the future, and that I absolutely had to be happy. My tears burst out. What do you all think I should do now?