Chapter 139

That night, Duke Yan brought his in-laws over.

Zuo Heying was originally drinking outside with his friends, suddenly dragged back by his father, full of complaints.

When he returned home and saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law, his heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.

What’s going on here?

Mrs. Zuo’s maiden name was Chen. At this time, Mr. and Mrs. Chen were also puzzled.

When everyone was present, Duke Yan had the servants assist Mrs. Zuo in.

At this moment, Mrs. Zuo’s face was pale, her expression trance-like, and her eyes empty and lifeless.

“Mother!”

Mrs. Chen saw her daughter in such a miserable state and hurriedly went up to her with concern.

Mr. Chen’s face changed suddenly, but he didn’t dare to get angry with Duke Yan. He could only ask urgently, “Father-in-law, how could my daughter end up like this?”

Zuo Heying was also shocked by Mrs. Zuo’s appearance, his face full of confusion.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Duke Yan’s face turned serious as he recounted everything that had happened that day.

After Duke Yan finished speaking, the room fell into silence.

Zuo Heying stood aside, trembling violently.

He never expected that not only had Mrs. Zuo cuckolded him, but she was also carrying someone else’s child!

“You wench! You shameless wench!”

Zuo Heying was furious!

His eyes were bloodshot, his face contorted. Looking around, he grabbed a long sword from the wall and charged towards Mrs. Zuo with a fierce momentum.

It seemed like he wanted to tear Mrs. Zuo apart!

“No! Don’t hurt Mother!”

Mrs. Chen felt extremely ashamed and angry. She didn’t expect her daughter to do such a shameful thing!

But in the face of life and death, she instinctively wanted to protect her child.

Mr. Chen was horrified, almost choking on Li Xusheng’s name!

And with his daughter doing such shameless things, given the disparity between their Chen family and Duke Yan’s mansion, they were afraid of retaliation!

The hall was suddenly chaotic, with Zuo Heying’s roars and Mrs. Chen’s screams mixing together.

Even in such chaos, Mrs. Zuo remained vacant, without any reaction.

“That’s enough!”

Duke Yan suddenly stood up and sternly reprimanded Zuo Heying.

Zuo Heying was suddenly stunned, turning his head incredulously to look at his father.

“Father, it’s her who betrayed her son and tarnished our Duke Yan Mansion! She’s not worth pitying even if she dies ten thousand times! Why are you stopping your son!”

Duke Yan’s expression was stern as he raised his voice, “Heying, do you think you have no responsibility for the situation to develop to this point?”

“Back then, you lusted after the beauty of Mrs. Zuo, insisted on marrying her, and after marrying her, you didn’t know how to cherish her. Over the years, you’ve been indulging in pleasure. Do you think Mrs. Zuo deserves to be laughed at because of this!”

“You couldn’t control yourself, you couldn’t manage the family, you showed mercy where you shouldn’t have, did you never think there would be repercussions!”

“Do you know, Ning’er witnessed everything today! She’s still young, she’s still a girl, how do you expect her to handle herself in the future!”

“With such an unreliable father and a mother who abandons propriety and integrity, what do you expect Anning to do? She’s so innocent!”

Duke Yan scolded loudly, banging the tea table with his right hand.

At the mention of Zuo Anning, Zuo Heying suddenly froze, and even Mrs. Zuo, who had been unresponsive until now, shed tears.

Seeing Zuo Heying calm down slightly, Duke Yan turned to the Chen family.

“And you two!”

Mr. Chen’s face turned pale suddenly. He wanted to speak up, but Duke Yan coldly interrupted:

“If Mrs. Zuo had already been engaged to Li Xusheng, why didn’t you speak up earlier! If you had spoken up, even if I had to break Heying’s legs, I would have stopped him from making trouble!”

“But for the sake of climbing up to the Duke Yan Mansion, you secretly broke off the engagement, causing harm to others, and thus planted the seeds of disaster, harming all three families!”

“Look at all this injustice, the sins committed now will eventually be repaid!”

As Duke Yan’s words fell, Mrs. Zuo was already in tears.

Yes, it was her vanity and selfishness back then that led to such evil thoughts, harming the Xusheng family and ruining her own life!

Mr. and Mrs. Chen did not forget their past sins. Now, being exposed by Duke Yan, they were pale and speechless.

Duke Yan felt extremely tired. He looked at everyone in the hall and said coldly:

“All these sins were committed by us, and have nothing to do with Anning. Yet now she has to bear all the consequences!”

“A mother who colludes with outsiders and conceives a child in secret, if this matter spreads, it will ruin Anning’s happiness for the rest of her life!”

“So what I’m about to say is a decision, not a consultation. None of you have the right to object!”

Seeing everyone looking at him, Duke Yan took a long breath and said with a cold face:

“After all, Mrs. Zuo is Anning’s birth mother. I won’t take her life, and I can’t bear to let Anning mourn for three years for such an incompetent mother, wasting the best years of her life!”

“To preserve Anning’s reputation, she can’t have a mother who has been abandoned. So, Heying, tonight you will divorce Mrs. Zuo. You are divorced!”

Seeing Zuo Heying’s unwillingness, Duke Yan glared at him.

“In the end, all of this started with you. It was your lust that led to this, your indulgence afterward. Don’t be resentful! Do you still want to ruin Anning!”

Zuo Heying was overwhelmed with resentment. He wanted to tear Mrs. Zuo apart!

But he only had Anning as a daughter. As a father, no matter how irresponsible he was, he couldn’t ignore his daughter’s reputation and future.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth, roared in frustration, and then fiercely threw the sword in his hand to the ground, as a compromise.

Seeing this, Duke Yan turned to the Chen family.

“Mrs. Zuo has committed an unforgivable sin. You two should know. Such a mistake, if placed in someone else’s family, would have them put in a pig cage!”

The Chen couple trembled at the words, and Duke Yan continued:

“I can spare Mrs. Zuo, but she can’t stay in the capital. You must send her away, as far away as possible!”

“I will also send someone to watch her to ensure she never appears in front of Anning again!”

“And, our two families will divorce. We can only announce publicly that we are incompatible as husband and wife. If I hear any gossip detrimental to Anning, no matter what means I use, I will not spare the Chen family!”

“I have prepared the divorce decree and contract. Let’s sign and seal them now, and part ways!”

Duke Yan was decisive. This was the strategy he had come up with today.

There was only one principle: Anning comes first!

The Chen family didn’t dare to say a word. They were already guilty themselves, and their daughter’s mistakes were too great. Being able to save one life was already a blessing!

Zuo Heying hated it, but for Anning’s sake, he had to sign his name and stamp it.