Chapter 38

Shen Youran finished speaking and walked away quickly.

The military wife who had spoken earlier blushed. She looked back at the others, and they all looked at each other before finding an excuse to get up and leave.

They could talk bad about others behind their backs, but now that others knew, they couldn’t say anything.

It wasn’t the first time they had been overheard, but people would usually run away when they heard them. They wouldn’t confront them directly. Shen Youran’s personality was obviously more assertive. When she retorted, she didn’t hold back at all. What if she retorted at them next time? It would be even more embarrassing.

Seeing the military wives around them leave in a hurry, the military wife who had taken the initiative to speak was furious. “You have the guts to talk behind people’s backs, but you don’t dare to say it to their faces?”

“What kind of people are they!”

Shen Youran took Junjun away. She could feel the milk ball’s emotions. She picked him up. “Junjun, are you unhappy?”

“I heard them say that about Mommy, and I’m unhappy.”

Junjun was too young. He didn’t have much in his head. He only knew that they were saying things about his mother that would make her unhappy. He couldn’t understand anything else.

“There’s nothing to be unhappy about. Let them say what they want. Their mouths are on their faces. Can I cover their mouths?”

“Junjun,” Shen Youran hugged him and walked towards the kindergarten. “If we can be happier without Daddy, then we should leave, right?”

Junjun nodded.

“Then, after we’re happy, do we need to care if others are happy?”

Junjun shook her head.

Shen Youran gave him a big kiss on the cheek. “Our Junjun is so smart. That’s what Mommy means. As long as we’re happy, we don’t need to care what others say or do.”

“Always remember, you walk your own path.”

Although this was a profound truth, Shen Youran thought that Junjun’s intelligence would allow him to understand it soon.

Mother and son chatted and soon arrived at the kindergarten.

Shen Youran sent Junjun inside and then went to her squad.

The news of her divorce from Lu Yifan had spread throughout the entire military compound, and even the people in the army knew about it.

As soon as she arrived at her squad, Shen Youran noticed that everyone was looking at her strangely.

Even though they had been training for half the morning, their gazes were still strange, making Shen Youran confused. “What’s wrong with you? Why have you all been staring at me this morning?”

Could it be because of her divorce?

“Did you really get divorced?” Someone couldn’t hold back.

Shen Youran laughed when she heard this. “Oh, I thought it was something else. If you want to ask, just ask. I did get divorced.”

Hearing her say this and seeing her confident attitude, everyone was a little confused.

Just then, Captain Yu Fei walked over.

“Why did you divorce him?”

It was break time, so everyone could chat for a while.

“Because we weren’t compatible,” Shen Youran found a place to sit down. “If we’re not compatible, there’s no need to force ourselves to be together. We were both disgusted with each other, and it made us unhappy. It was suffocating.”

“It’s better to divorce.”

“After the divorce, I feel so much lighter. I’m living with my child. There’s no need to worry about anything.”

Shen Youran spread her hands and smiled brightly.

Yu Fei was silent for a long time. “Are you just putting on a brave face in front of us?”

“No.”

Shen Youran shook her head seriously. “We should have talked about this a long time ago. But I wanted to wait until I joined a better squad before talking about it. It’s a natural thing to do.”

After hearing this, everyone in the squad finally felt relieved.

“We thought you were forced to divorce!”

“Actually, it’s good that you think this way. Many people don’t want to divorce. They think it’s too embarrassing. I once saw a woman whose husband said he couldn’t go on and wanted a divorce. She drank poison and committed suicide that night.”

“My distant relative has a sister who was like that. Her husband beat her several times, and she always wanted a divorce, but her family wouldn’t agree. In the end, she jumped into the river!”

Everyone was talking about their own experiences.

“More than that,” Li Xiaoxiao, the gossip of the squad, said. “I know a sister whose husband was already cheating and had a child with another woman. She still wouldn’t get a divorce.”

“The mistress was anxious to get married, and in the end, they killed her. Although the man and the mistress were arrested by the police later, the sister was dead. It’s such a pity.”

Li Xiaoxiao became more and more excited as she spoke, and everyone listened with great interest.

The more Shen Youran listened, the more frightened she became.

If two people couldn’t go on, they should just get a divorce. Why did they have to drag each other down and end up like this?

“There are also cases where divorced women want to go back to their parents’ house, but their parents don’t want them back. They freeze to death alone in their house in the middle of winter!”

Hearing these examples, Shen Youran couldn’t imagine how those women had endured it.

The mistress had already moved in, but they still wouldn’t get a divorce.

And those parents, who thought that a divorced woman going back to her parents’ house was a disgrace.

What were they thinking? Could their daughter’s happiness be less important than their face?

Would they rather let their daughter suffer, living in misery, than let her lose face?

But then again, the original owner’s parents were like that. They had been constantly trying to persuade her to stay after she said she wanted to get a divorce.

Besides the fact that they could get a good job at the family compound, the most important reason was that they were afraid of losing face, afraid of affecting Shen Tianci’s marriage prospects.

After all, if you were going to get married to someone, you had to find out everything about their family.

“It’s good that you’re open-minded. We support you!” After talking for a while, they brought the topic back.

Yu Fei saw that everyone had finished chatting, so she blew her whistle and told them to assemble for training.

Shen Youran was still thinking about the examples her comrades had mentioned during training. After thinking for a long time, she sighed. It was a characteristic of the times.

Some women hadn’t fully awakened yet. They still thought that once you got married, you had to stay together for life. That’s why these things happened.

Things would get better gradually.

As for those who would rather die than get a divorce, they were simply crazy.

Why would you give up your life for someone you couldn’t live with?

As long as you’re alive, there are countless possibilities!

After training ended in the afternoon, Shen Youran picked up the milk balls and went home. As soon as she stepped into the family compound, she saw countless people sitting on the roadside chatting.

When they saw her, everyone looked at her at the same time.

Some people whispered as they looked at her, and their soft voices reached Shen Youran’s ears. She didn’t care.

Everyone’s eyes became even more strange. She pretended not to see it and carried Junjun straight upstairs. After closing the door, she took Junjun into the room.

“Mommy.”

Perhaps because of Shen Youran’s comfort earlier, Junjun wasn’t as sad and didn’t care much about everyone’s gossip.

He called out, “The vegetables we planted are ripe again. Can we eat them?”

The previous batch of ripe vegetables had been put in a room. Now another batch was ripe, and Junjun wanted to eat them.

“Yes.”

“Mommy will cook the meat in the kitchen first. Junjun, see what vegetables you want to eat, and go get some, okay?”

“Okay.”

Unafraid of the rumors outside, the mother and son cooked and ate in the space.

The fresh vegetables were so delicious that Junjun didn’t even look at the meat. He piled the vegetables into his bowl and said as he ate, “Mommy, these vegetables are so delicious! Every kind is so good. They’re better than what I eat at the nursery!”

Hearing Junjun’s words, Shen Youran suddenly had an idea.

There were so many vegetables in the space, and they ripened so quickly. They would ripen every five days or so. Why not, like what she had read in that book before, learn from Lu Yifan and the others and sell the vegetables?