Chapter 723 - 721
Jiang Yifan, upon hearing Ye Xinyan say this, immediately perked up, his smile brimming as he asked, "Ah Yan, are you worried that the Duke will be annoyed with me and not allow me to be your husband?"
Shameless! Ye Xinyan unceremoniously gave him a sidelong glance and coolly said, "Besides that, wouldn’t it be fine to send you back to some remote county?"
Uh, Jiang Yifan was taken aback. Even though the likelihood wasn’t very high, it was a gamble he couldn’t afford to take. Although he was confident that he could return, that would be three years later. Three years, and Ah Yan wouldn’t run away from home again.
"That won’t happen, I will definitely not cross the Duke’s bottom line. Don’t you have confidence in how I handle things?" Jiang Yifan said ruefully.
Afterward, he seriously considered Madam Yin’s situation and, somewhat puzzled, said to Ye Xinyan, "Ah Yan, your aunt is presently well in Duke An’s Mansion, living a life that is quite satisfactory. If she leaves, she could only return to Marquis Zhongyong’s Mansion, and staying long-term at her parental home is ultimately no long-term solution, I fear she would end up without a place to belong."
Ye Xinyan gave Jiang Yifan a somewhat sorrowful glance, her heart clouding with worry.
In this era, although people are not like moderns who believe that a woman cannot remarry, if there isn’t a very substantial reason, such as maltreatment by the husband’s family or the husband being intolerable to live with, there’s completely no justification for divorce under pleasant day-to-day circumstances.
In the eyes of the world, if one had a good life with their in-laws, if the parents-in-law were kind and the husband wasn’t abusive, and at most the wife was neglected by the husband, if she still wanted a divorce, that would surely be regarded as being discontent, and she would be subject to public criticism.