Chapter 319 - 309 Didn’t Hear Everything
"You..." Mrs. Mi saw that Old Mi seemed to enjoy her expression and couldn’t help but reminisce about the old days, stopped what she was doing, her old face reddened. She is too old for this, really never grows old, never acts properly.
She started to become indignant again, "Tell me, when have I ever despised you?"
"Every time you run back to your mother’s house, the things you say to her—I’ve heard it all from beneath the windows. Is it just because I don’t look as handsome as that guy? Even your mother looks down on me? No matter how good-looking he is, weren’t you the one who ended up becoming my wife?"
Old Mi still felt indignant when he thought about it. Once, when his wife was visiting her parents’, he accidentally overheard his mother-in-law saying to his wife, "...if it doesn’t work out, Xu-somebody’s wife didn’t have her child, that’s perfect, you used to think he was handsome..."
His head swelled in an instant. He didn’t dare listen to the rest and ran off, fearing being caught eavesdropping by his mother-in-law and wife. He didn’t know why he felt so cowardly and afraid at that time—it was clearly the mother-in-law who was in the wrong, but he was the one who chickened out.
He knew that Xu-somebody, a man in his wife’s village with some education, was called sophisticated-looking. His wife had even praised him in front of Old Mi many times before. At that time, he didn’t have the courage to burst in and confront them. Afterwards, he just kept worrying that his wife would really fall for that pretty boy and leave him.
Ever since then, he dared not let his displeasure with his mother-in-law show, yet the thorn remained, and he couldn’t let go of the grudge.
Now that his wife was of a certain age and couldn’t run off, and that Xu-somebody had remarried long ago. Xu-somebody may have had a refined air when he was younger, but now that he’s aged, he’s showing severe signs of aging, and he doesn’t look as good as Old Mi...
So, bringing up the old issue, he felt quite confident, not the least bit afraid.
"You were eavesdropping?"