311: Chapter 220: Divorce?!
311: Chapter 220: Divorce?!
After dinner, back in his own room, the first thing Zhou Mikang said to Chuxia was, “Lin Chuxia, if you choose to leave now, I won’t bla you.
I’ll even talk to Aunt Xu and ask her to continue to take care of you.”
“Who said I want to leave?” Chuxia pouted and rolled her eyes, “Do you really think I’m so disloyal?
Did I marry you for the power of your family?
And would I leave you for fear of suffering with you?”
“Isn’t that so?” Zhou Mikang stared at Chuxia expressionlessly, “The fact that you didn’t marry of your own free will, and only agreed after conditions were proposed, is true.
So, I have always been clear that you wanted to marry because of the good life I could provide for your parents.
But now, these benefits might co to an end.
You never liked in the first place, so if you leave now, I won’t bla you.”
“Bastard!
You’re such a bastard!” Chuxia was so angry she jumped out of bed and started pounding “thump thump thump” on Zhou Mikang’s body.
He just sat there, perfectly still, letting her fists fall on his chest like raindrops.
The incident happened too suddenly.
If he had heard even a whisper of it beforehand, he would definitely not have married her.
Watching the little figure in front of him, her face red with anger, his heart felt a swelling, sour pain.
He thought he could protect her for a lifeti, make her happy forever.
Now, it seems like…
it’s not possible.
He knew better than anyone else how ruthless Old Master Xiao could be.
Her hands hurt from the pounding, but he sat there emotionless, silent.
Chuxia had to stop her onslaught and frowned as she looked at him.
From the seemingly calm depths of his eyes, she saw a trace of turbulence.
It turned out he was not as composed as he appeared.
Thinking back on today’s eting, she also really gained a clear understanding of this era.
One mont, the prestigious family everyone envied; the next, they might beco the subject of limited access, sympathy from so and schadenfreude from others.
Luckily, having co from the twenty-first century, although she did not fully understand this era, she did rember so major events.
This period was just a brief darkness before the dawn.
When she and Zhou Mikang were engaged, Third Uncle Zhou’s son-in-law Xiao Yuwen was disrespectful to her, and Zhou Mikang tossed him out by the scruff of his neck.
Since then, Xiao Yuwen, his wife Zhou Aiping, and his mother-in-law Liu Lingi never showed up in the Zhou family again, not even during her marriage to Zhou Mikang.
She had thought Zhou Aiping and the others didn’t co because they held a grudge against Zhou Mikang’s actions and didn’t want to see them, but the reality far exceeded her expectations.
A few days ago, Liu Lingi proposed divorce to Zhou Shanping, and it was non-negotiable.
With the elder daughter already married, she wanted custody of her son, Zhou Huakang.
Zhou Shanping naturally did not agree, and Zhou Huakang himself also expressed the wish to stay with his father.
But today, without Zhou Shanping’s involvent, the divorce papers were sohow processed by Liu Lingi, and she gained custody of their son.
When she appeared in front of Zhou Shanping with this series of docunts, his astonishnt can only be imagined, and he also realized sothing was terribly wrong.
Although the Zhou family was not an ordinary clan, the fact that Liu Lingi managed to handle the divorce without his presence, speaks volus about the unusual nature of the situation.
Zhou Shanping hadn’t told Old Master Zhou about the divorce because the family had been busy with the wedding preparations.
But now, with such a serious incident, he could not keep it from Old Master Zhou any longer.
After Old Master Zhou ca back, through his own connections, he learned that Xiao Yuwen’s father, Xiao Bingqi, had risen to power—the Xiao family’s faction had acquired absolute control.
This also ant that the Zhou family was on the decline.
Victory and defeat, regardless of the era, this unchanging truth stays the sa.
That was also why Old Madam Zhou didn’t want Chuxia to attend the family eting initially.
In her view, Chuxia was not yet a mber of the Zhou family, and there was no need for Chuxia to know of such private and embarrassing matters.
Of course, subconsciously, she might have intended for Chuxia to use this as an opportunity to extricate herself.
Having spent a few days together, Chuxia’s impression of her was that of an old person with a tough exterior but a soft heart.
Even if she really ant well, she would never say so; she would still make a show of “I really dislike you, stay away from .”
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