Chapter 130 - 36 Being a Father
Shen Chi returned to find Lin Xiaoguai holding a book, yet her expression clearly indicated her mind was elsewhere.
"What’s wrong?" he asked as he took off his coat and kissed her cheek.
Lin Xiaoguai jumped, looked up to see him, and breathed a sigh of relief, though her tone was irritated, "You’re back."
"What has happened?" Shen Chi repeated his question.
"My niece Lin Xiaoniao has run away from home," Lin Xiaoguai explained after sharing the story of raising Lin Xiaoniao and the reasons behind her running away. She sighed, "That child is very bright, and she probably left fearing that my second sister-in-law would sell her."
She had always considered her second sister-in-law to be incredibly foolish without any limits. If her second brother hadn’t been so weak and unattractive, her mom wouldn’t have arranged the marriage, and her dad wouldn’t have allowed such a woman into the family.
That woman was the most selfish person she had ever seen. Using the absence of a male heir as an excuse, she was extremely stingy. It wasn’t just with her daughter; even her second brother probably didn’t get to eat meat more than once a year. The proverb says that it takes centuries to sleep on the same bed, meaning a husband and wife relationship is close, but in her second sister-in-law’s eyes, her second brother was more a servant and a tool for producing sons than a husband.
After she had grown up and understood the situation, she couldn’t stand it and had advised her second brother several times to assert himself. However, he showed no spine, agreeing with her and then doing nothing. Eventually, seeing him so weak-willed, she stopped bothering.