6 Years After My Ex-Wife Left, I Remarried. A Person Appeared at the Wedding, and My Heart Felt Like It Was Being Cut with a Knife

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6 years after my ex-wife left, I remarried. A person appeared at the wedding, and my heart felt like it was being cut with a knife.

From childhood to adulthood, everything in my life was arranged by my mother. The only time I went against my mother's wishes was when I married my ex-wife. I loved her very much, but my mother never liked her, and I still went ahead and stayed with her without any hesitation. Our beautiful relationship ended 6 years ago when she died in a car accident. I was devastated and began to resent my mother. And 6 years later, I finally walked out of the shadow and decided to remarry, but at the wedding an uninvited guest appeared, and the sorrow surged up again...

My family was well-off. My parents ran a company together, and I never had to worry about food or clothing growing up. But from childhood to adulthood, I always had to do things according to my mother's wishes. When I was little, children my age could go to amusement parks, but I had to attend all kinds of cram schools my mother signed me up for; in university I could not choose the major I liked, but had to choose the one she thought was suitable. She raised me into the person she had in mind, which made me rarely have my own opinions. But then I met Xiaoyun, my ex-wife, the person I would rather fall out with my mother to marry.

Xiaoyun was a very gentle and kind girl. She was very considerate of me, understood me, and understood my thoughts. There is no most perfect person in the world, but she was the most suitable person for me. Being with her did not feel stressful, it was very relaxed, and she was also the person I wanted to take care of and protect for a lifetime. But my mother did not like her at all, simply because Xiaoyun's family was not very well-off and her education was not very high. My mother had raised me into what she saw as an excellent person, and she also hoped my other half would be an especially excellent person. Back then I fought desperately and forced my mother to agree before I could marry Xiaoyun, but after she married into the family, she was made things difficult for by my mother in every possible way. Xiaoyun kept tolerating it, but my mother would not let it go, giving her a sour face all day long and finding trouble with her whenever there was nothing else to do. In the end Xiaoyun had no choice but to plan to go back to her parents' home for a few days. But on the day she went back, Xiaoyun had a car accident and could never come back...

I began to regret it beyond measure. I had promised to take care of her and protect her for a lifetime, but I could do nothing. The grief pressed on my heart and would not disperse for a long time, and I also began to resent my mother. If my mother had not made things so difficult for Xiaoyun, she would not have gone back that day, and then she would not have had the car accident. After that I moved out, unwilling to see my mother again. That departure lasted 6 years. Apart from sending money back home every year, I never went home to visit. Xiaoyun's death made it impossible for me to accept my mother. Later on life's road I met another girl. She accompanied me out of the shadow of losing my ex-wife, and I also slowly learned, as time passed, to let go of my longing for my ex-wife. After so many years had passed, I finally considered remarrying and marrying this girl.

Then we began discussing the marriage, but on the wedding day, a person I did not want to see appeared. After not seeing her for several years, she looked much older than before. Her expression was no longer as cold and heartless as before; instead, she looked at me sorrowfully with furrowed brows. That was my mother. But my mother's appearance made me think again of Xiaoyun's death, and my heart could not calm down for a long time. My mother said it was my current wife who had notified her to come. She knew the mistakes she had made back then, and now she truly blessed me and my current wife, hoping I could forgive her. But no matter how much she apologized, Xiaoyun could not come back! Although I now have a new wife, do you think I can forgive my mother for what she did back then?