"No, I'm not leaving! I am the first wife that the Liu family legitimately married, and I've taken care of the in-laws until they passed away. Liu Shouren, you can't be heartless, you just can't!"
Seeing the man with a dark face, determined to send her back to her family home, Wu Xia wailed, clinging to the door frame, refusing to let go. She cried and begged, pleading for Shuzhen to show mercy, saying that if she went back to her family, she'd have no way to survive.
After all, they've been sisters-in-law for eight years. She begged Shuzhen to consider how she had taken care of Liu Shouren faithfully and forgive her this time.
Shuzhen sneered, wanting to ask her: If I show mercy now, will you remember this kindness in the future and forgive our entire Liu family?
She wanted to resolve everything by directly removing this malicious woman from the Liu family. But seeing the fleeting reluctance in her brother's eyes, Shuzhen knew this could only be a thought. After all, haste makes waste, and not to mention leaving problems behind, she didn't want to estrange herself further from her brother. She needed to drive this malicious woman out, but she couldn't let her relationship with her brother become distant.
While beating the rat, one must also protect the jade vase.
Before Shuzhen could think of a win-win solution, Wu Xia was stirred by Liu family's second brother, Liu Shouyi, who harshly said, 'Heartless? A woman whose conscience has been chewed by dogs dares to mention my parents? If the elders were alive to see you bullying their precious daughter like this, do you think you could simply divorce and be done with it? Divorce and then a lawsuit, making you repent in Bali for the rest of your life.' The harsh words made her lose her rationality.
She wiped her tears fiercely and glared at her two brothers, "Killing someone just means burying the head. I've already compensated, kneeled. You, Liu Shouren and Liu Shouyi, still push me to a dead end. Are you trying to kick me out to make room for that slut Liu Shuzhen, to raise the bastard in her belly for the Liu family to continue the bloodline?"
"Ha-ha, right. Liu Shouren, you are so worthless. Besides me, Wu Xia, who else would…"
Seeing her older brother's face change from pale to ashen as though struck at a vital spot, Shuzhen suddenly understood why her strong-willed brother had been bullied by Wu Xia for so many years, and why her second brother and sister-in-law allowed her antics. It turned out this bitch had saddled her brother with a cap of incompetence, threatening him every time with divorce.
Despicable!
The couple had been married for eight years without a single child, and Shuzhen didn't know who exactly was to blame, but she knew that today she absolutely couldn't let her brother be firmly labeled as incompetent. Otherwise, not only would remarrying be out of the question, but he wouldn't be able to lift his head proudly in Liu family village.
To protect her brother, she had to fight!
With this belief, Shuzhen quickly stepped forward and slapped Wu Xia, whose mouth was bleeding. Before the stunned Wu Xia could recover, she placed her hands on her hips and began to berate her. She raised her voice significantly so that the villagers watching from afar and listening could hear clearly to vindicate her brother: "Pah, you heartless and ungrateful person! You committed the sin yourself, yet try to heap a basket of shit on my brother's head. Do you have any shame? Clearly, it was my brother's soft-heartedness, kindness, and sense of responsibility that made him unwilling to throw you back to your family to face being ostracized.
Yet you, ungrateful white-eyed wolf, not only aren't thankful but bite back!
Injustice against my brother, did you ever reflect on those years you secretly took medicine?
Look, these infertility drugs are still here, yet you dare spout nonsense and twist the truth. Truly, you have a mouth adept at inverting facts!"
With a harsh throw, she slammed the abortion medicine, claiming it was an infertility recipe, from Wu Xia's dowry chest onto her face.
Wu Xia stared wide-eyed, wanting to say that it wasn't infertility drugs at all, but abortion medicine Bai Jing gave her to find chances to get rid of the baby in Liu Shuzhen's womb. But midway, she suddenly remembered Bai Jing's threats, capable of making her wealthy or sending her family down the road. Wu Xia's throat felt stuffed with cotton, unable to utter a single sound.
"Silent? Feeling guilty like a thief, right? You miserable wretch, not knowing to count your blessings, ruining my family's reputation. Weren't you just worried I'd hang around my parents' home, eating their food and occupying their land? So heartless, again and again, you want to end me, but when caught red-handed by my brothers, you try to counterattack. Such a wife…"
"Such a wife, we Liu family can't afford you. You may go, Wu Xia. Considering our eight years of marriage, I won't make things difficult for you. Let's part on good terms. Otherwise, we'll take our evidence and witnesses and go to the local authorities." Fearing his sister's words might ostracize her when spoken out in public, Liu Shouren quickly took over, bringing up divorce with Wu Xia again.
Having just mocked the unlucky sister-in-law being sent back to her family, Wu Xia now faced the same, and she was extremely reluctant. Unfortunately, at this point, it wasn't a matter she could resolve by simply saying no. Divorce was bitter, but when choosing between it and grinding punishments, divorce seemed preferable. Though hurtful, the night behind, the bond of eight years should allow her to slowly win back her husband's heart.
Confidently, plotting to compromise first then finding opportunities to reverse her tide, Wu Xia never dreamed that from the moment she nodded in agreement, little sister-in-law Liu Shuzhen would never give her a chance to come back!
Once she agreed to the divorce, Liu Shouren signaled Liu Shuzhen and Liu Shouyi's wife, Su Hongying, to watch her pack all her clothes and shoes. With a borrowed wheelbarrow from the production team, Liu Shouyi loaded her dowry: a pair of boxes, a cupboard, a thin and thick quilt onto the cart. The family expression was quick to send her away, a look that screamed to never contact them again, burning Wu Xia with rage but leaving her helpless.
She could only ask nicely, discussing whether she could get the savings and food stamps she'd saved up given to her, even a hundred or eighty would be enough! After all, besides the two hundred from Bai Jing, from Liu Shuzhen came another two hundred and fifty kilos of food stamps; the rest was truly what she'd saved over the years.
"No way for the money, after all, your old Wang family was stingy, didn't even give a monetary base as everyone in Liu family village knows. You, Wu Xia, after marrying, became lazy and scheming, doing nothing proper, and even under the guise of seeing doctors and maintaining health, squandered a lot. Not seeking compensation from your Wang family was already lenient of us. So, don't dream."
Hurry and write a statement for me, thumb admission, and head back to your old Wang family!
Full of malicious intentions, really wasted my affection for you back then." Shuzhen spat and scorned Wu Xia's whimsical fantasies. She dug out pen and paper, detailing the account thoroughly, then grabbed Wu Xia's thumb for a print, freshly producing a confession letter.