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Return to the Frontline: I Exposed His Betrayal, Then Fought My Own Battle

War correspondent Lin Zhao retired from the frontline after being injured, only to catch her husband cheating on her with her best friend during rehab. Just as the pain of betrayal was tearing her apart, an urgent call came about a humanitarian crisis in the war zone—where she’d once stayed 72 hours and shielded civilians with her body. Torn between a rotten marriage and a mission etched into her bones, Lin Zhao grit her teeth, picked up her camera, and went back to the frontline. She crouched in ruins to photograph a child’s eyes, helped an elderly man find shelter amid gunfire, and every frame in her lens screamed: “I’m not someone’s wife—I’m a journalist, a warrior here to bring the truth out.” When her photo of carrying a wounded child through artillery fire hit the front page, her husband waited outside her building with flowers—but in her eyes, there was no trace of that cowardly man, only the unextinguished light in the smoke.