Chapter 100: What Do You Mean?
Lu Xingchang was also left stunned for half a day, unable to wrap his head around everything. In his heart, even if Huang Maochun was unreasonable and unaware, it could only be because she’d had a child. Thereby, when she casually abused her own parents and little sister, he persuaded his family to endure it. Even though she wasn’t satisfied with his brother and sister-in-law, and wasn’t great with the children either, he tried his best to mediate, just wanting to live a good life with her.
But lately, she’d been too much. Not only did she steal the cotton tickets that Mom had saved for her sister without admitting to it, but she also brought the matter to her sister’s in-laws, telling them that Mom was stealing from her room. Which family would marry off their daughter to a family with unclean hands? Worst of all, she spread a lot of bad talk about Xiangxiang, that her family was a mess. Who would want to get involved with such a family?
Today, her future brother-in-law came personally to break off the engagement, even uttering lots of harsh words. It deeply wounded Xiangxiang, who couldn’t recover for quite a while, yet there she was, making insensitive comments.
He had always been patient, thinking that it’s not easy for two people to get married, and now that they had a child, if they could live well, then just live well. But he never expected her to go this far today.
"You hit me?"
Huang Maochun, looking at Lu Xingchang’s somewhat bloodshot eyes, finally reacted too. But being used to throwing her weight around in her in-laws’ house, she was unwilling to bow her head and remained stubborn.
"So I hit you, what about it? You worthless man, I’m unfortunate to have married you. Your whole family is poor and pathetic. Before she got married, your sister promised to buy this and that, but she didn’t even show up when we got married. And your parents, what kind of dowry did they give? Don’t you know the current standards for marrying off a daughter, pah!"
"Huang Maochun, my family may be poor, but when Mom made her requests, didn’t our parents satisfy them? As for my sister, did she not want to come? Was it not that she had an issue at her in-laws that prevented it? She’s also tight on money and couldn’t look after me. Hasn’t she been compensating you bit by bit these two years? My parents have been patient with you for my and the child’s sake. At home, you beat and scold me at will, but when have I ever laid a hand on you? But today, what you’ve done to my parents and my little sister, as well as to my elder brother and sister-in-law—do they owe you something? Why do you bully them?"