Chapter 578 - 576 What Did She Say
Lady Zhao’s eyes widened in astonishment; when she had previously declined the Zhou family’s marriage proposal to the wife of the heir apparent, Miss Ye had questioned her integrity, albeit in a more veiled manner. But to hear her son put it this way, Miss Ye had brazenly voiced insults to her!
Enraged, Lady Zhao lifted her hand, but ultimately did not dare smash the Qi family’s porcelain on the floor. Instead, she turned her wrist and slammed her palm heavily on the table, "This Miss Ye is utterly unreasonable! I have lived my life squarely and honorably for decades, and no one has ever spoken half a word against me. How dare she slander me like this?"
As she spoke, she attempted to get down from the heated brick bed, "I’m going to find her and argue this out; how am I not a good person?"
Lady Zhao was truly angry. When she was younger, her husband had been imprisoned and later sent to the border pass. She raised her child alone for ten years, waited for ten years, only to receive the news brought back by her husband’s sworn brother that her husband had died in battle.
All these years, she had upheld her duty as a wife, conducted herself with propriety in all things, and anyone who knew her praised her for her upright character. How had she become a villain in Qi Ye’s eyes?
Seeing his mother so upset, Wong Qiao felt distressed as well, but he still tried to restrain and soothe her, "Mother, please don’t be angry. Miss Ye was just speaking mindlessly; she didn’t mean anything by it."
Lady Zhao pushed him away with force, furious, "Didn’t mean anything by it? People live for their face, trees live for their bark. Isn’t a person’s reputation and face all they have in this world? If she can speak of me like this so openly, what else does she want? And you!"
As her anger rose, she turned towards Wong Qiao, "I’ve raised you from infancy to adulthood, and now that you have grown up, when someone speaks ill of your mother, you just accept it! What use are you to me?" By the end, Lady Zhao’s voice was choked with emotion, and her eyes had begun to moisten.