The entire village was sh0cked when one of the local men returned to his parents’ home with a woman who her face covered: but something terrible soon came to light about his new wife. 

The entire village was shocked when one of the local men returned to his parents’ home with a woman who looked just like him.

He had been working in the city for the past few years, and none of the villagers had heard from him in a long time. Only occasionally did his parents receive money and short letters from their son.

And then one day he returned. Not alone, but with a new wife.

The elderly parents were overjoyed: their only son had finally started a family. They were eagerly awaiting the meeting of their daughter-in-law… until they saw her.

The woman stood next to their son, her entire face hidden under thick bandages, and only her eyes were visible. 

The mother pressed her hand to her chest in shock.

“Son… what’s wrong with her?”

But the son only replied softly:

“Don’t ask, Mom. Just accept her as my wife.”

From that day on, silence settled in the house. The new daughter-in-law rarely went outside, avoided people, and spoke only to her husband, and then only when they were alone.

The neighbors whispered, speculated, and spread rumors. Some said she was a criminal, others that she was a witch.

The parents, too, were distraught. Every evening, they heard the woman quietly crying behind a closed door, and their son whispering something comforting to her.

One night, unable to bear it any longer, they decided to peek into the newlyweds’ room, where they locked themselves in after 11 a.m.

The daughter-in-law sat in front of the mirror, carefully removing the bandages from her face. And then the parents saw what their daughter-in-law had been hiding all this time 

In the dim light of the lamp, it became clear—her entire face was covered in deep burns and scars.

The mother couldn’t hold back a scream.

The son woke up, jumped up, and immediately realized—all was revealed.

“Yes…” he said quietly, “now you know the truth.”

He told her that several years ago, he was caught in a terrible fire in the city. The dormitory was burning, and it was this woman who pulled him out of the flames. She saved his life, but she herself was burned almost beyond recognition.

“I couldn’t leave her,” he said, looking into his parents’ eyes. “I fell in love not with her face, but with her heart.”

After these words, the mother burst into tears and approached her daughter-in-law. She hugged her for the first time—carefully, as if afraid of hurting her.

And in the morning, the neighbors began whispering again. Only now, with respect.