Thrown Away With Nothing, Rose to the Top with Everything

The Andrews family had two candidates for their daughter's hand in marriage. One was me, and the other was Calvert Thompson.

However, on Zera Andrews’s twenty-third birthday, Calvert died in a car accident. And just like that, I became the Andrews’s son-in-law.

After the wedding, my wife and I were respectful, loving, and devoted. So naturally, I gave everything to her and her family. I thought that was how my life would go: quiet, stable, and happy.

But I never expected that, in our old age, my wife would suddenly ask to move Calvert’s ashes into the Andrews’s ancestral tomb—into the spot…