"Why are you always lazing around at home? Don't you know you could be out delivering orders and making some money?"
"I've been married to you for so many years, and I don't even have a diamond ring! Go to the aquarium and see if there's anyone without a diamond ring!"
"You're such a useless fool! Marrying you must be the worst luck I've had in eight lifetimes!"
But I had handed over my salary card to her seven years ago, and for all these years, I never had more than a hundred bucks to my name.
Where was I supposed to find the money to buy her a diamond ring?
Yet, I didn't dare to argue back or even utter a word.
Out of guilt, I could only drag my exhausted body off the sofa and go out to continue earning money.
I scrimped and saved every penny I could by picking up bottles, delivering food, and running errands for others until I finally saved enough to buy a diamond ring.
I came to her full of joy, only to see her snuggled sweetly in the arms of another man.
In that moment, my heart fell from the edge of a cliff into an abyss, an unbearable pain.
I should have realized long ago that Janet's heart wasn't frozen; it was just that her springtime wasn't meant to be with me.