Chapter 574: The Powerful Bullying People (2)_1
Li Baoxiang felt that he couldn’t pretend to be unaware or play the fool; he should take the initiative to apologize, to lessen the disgust and hatred Pei Qin and the Fang family felt towards him.
So, the very next day, before dawn, he dressed neatly and had Sun Xiujin get up to go with him to apologize, "If we can secure Pei Qin’s forgiveness, perhaps we can still salvage some of our losses. If not..."
"Then you’ll divorce me, is that it!?" After a night of reflection, Sun Xiujin had begun to feel some fear. Yet Li Baoxiang’s attitude once again enraged her.
"Don’t think I won’t! No daughter-in-law of our Li family has ever been so cruel to her own sisters, so scheming in the darkness! You have now touched upon the ’seven outs’ for divorce; I have every right to dismiss you!" Li Baoxiang had been barely satisfied with Sun Xiujin before, but now she had brought trouble upon him, not accidentally but intentionally, and she had only given birth to daughters; getting rid of her was no more than a piece of paper away.
"You..." Sun Xiujin’s face turned ashen with hatred.
Miao’s groggily woke up and immediately got up when she heard, "Li Baoxiang, you dare! On what grounds could your family dismiss Xiujin!?"
Li Baoxiang faced her boldly as she came storming out, "On the grounds that she violated one of the ’seven outs’—’excessive speech leading to discord,’ disrupting the harmony among my relatives and wreaking havoc within our family. And she certainly hasn’t complied with any of the ’three rules of not dismissing.’