After a pause, Goldie said to Old Master Shaw and his wife, "Now that things have already come to this, I have nowhere to go. I beg you, please marry me. I don't wish for you to love me, I don’t want anything, I just want to live."
She held herself like a lowly servant.
A crowd gathered around them. Old Master Shaw was conflicted. Finally, succumbing to pressure, he divorced his wife, then signed a marriage certificate with Goldie. After Goldie obtained the Certificate of Permitted Birth, he immediately divorced her and remarried his first wife.
Since then, Goldie lived in a house near the Shaw family mansion in South City. He had promised to pay for her living expenses every month. The amount was small but it was enough for her to live off of. She could earn a living for herself, teaching piano and drawing lessons. Maybe it was because of her desperate desire t o live, or perhaps because she was pregnant and her bodily functions had improved, or perhaps because she no longer lived like a nomad, wandering from city to city. Anyway, in the year that she was pregnant, her health improved.
To improve her labor conditions, in her fifth or sixth month of pregnancy, she would take a walk alone every day. Right till the day she gave birth, no one
stayed by her side to accompany her.
She finally gave birth. It was a girl. Since she now had a child, her desire to live grew stronger than before. She did not wish for much, she merely hoped to live for 18 more years, to raise her child.
Goldie valued her child’s life more than her own. At the same time on the other side, maybe it was because she was angered or from a myriad of reasons, the baby girl Old Master Shaw's wife gave birth to passed away not long after she was born. The baby girl had been in a poor condition since birth and was kept in the hospital for treatment purposes. But in the end, she still passed away.
Because she lost her daughter, his wife's hatred for Goldie grew.
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