Chapter 90

Yun Guilan said, “Husband, what should we do now? Our daughter has been ruined by Er Laizi, she’ll probably never be able to marry now.”

Xia Dayong snorted, “Who told you to not properly manage her? She was so young and already liked to compete and be ambitious, now she’s suffered the consequences.”

“I’m too lazy to care about you two. From now on, I’ll pretend I don’t have this daughter. I, Xia Dayong, can’t afford to lose face. I don’t want people pointing at me in the street.”

“My sons haven’t married yet. Are we going to ruin all our sons for one daughter? Who will take care of us when we get old? If our sons can’t find wives, they’ll hate us.”

“Daughters are going to marry out anyway. If she can’t help our sons, it doesn’t matter who she marries.”

“But for raising her this long, you should still give her 20 yuan. She can’t take anything else besides her clothes. How she lives from now on is up to her. I’ve done my duty as a father. If it were anyone else, they would have been beaten to death.”

“Even in the same village, try to make her come home less often. Otherwise, I will be angry.”

Xia Yunge looked at Xia Dayong and Yun Guilan, tears streaming down her face. “Father, Mother, please help me. I don’t want to marry Er Laizi. You know Mrs. Li is the most manipulative person. Do you really want to see your daughter suffer by marrying him?”

Mrs. Li stepped forward, “You little wretch, you haven’t even married into our family yet, and you’re already ruining my reputation in front of everyone. If I don’t do something, wouldn’t that be a stain on my name?”

“Tie Dan, you shouldn’t marry this woman. I’ll find you another wife. This woman is too cunning. You’re so honest, you’ll suffer later.”

Xia Yunge just looked at her parents, her eyes wide open. Yun Guilan couldn’t stand being stared at and finally said, “Yunge, be obedient. Everyone is watching, you can’t marry anyone else but Er Laizi. Who else would you marry?”

“Besides, our Xia family can’t afford to lose face. Your brothers haven’t found wives yet. You don’t want to make it so they can’t find wives because of this, do you?”

“Be obedient. I’ll pack your clothes and bring them to you. Don’t come back. You and Er Laizi will go to town and get a marriage certificate. You’re a family now, you need to live a good life. Don’t be as reckless as before, or you’ll only suffer.”

Only then did Xia Yunge feel what despair was. Even her own parents didn’t want her, they wouldn’t let her go home. Tears streamed down her face. Why? Why was her life so miserable?

Xia Yunge wiped her tears, “Father, Mother, are you really going to abandon me? Are you ashamed of me? Or have you always only loved your two sons, and I was just a tool to help them succeed?”

“Now that I’m a broken tool, I can’t help them anymore, so you’ve abandoned me, you don’t care anymore, right?”

“If I had found someone from the city, someone powerful, would you treat me like this? Of course not. You’d probably treat me like an ancestor, wouldn’t you? I’m right, aren’t I?”

“Hahaha, Xia Yunge laughed like a crazy woman. You’ve always favored those two good-for-nothings. You let them eat meat and eggs first, anything good was theirs, they wore the clothes you didn’t want. Even when I was able to read, I had to go with them and be their maid.”

“I had to do their chores, wash their clothes, and cook for them. They were like young masters, they didn’t have to do anything. That’s why I felt unbalanced and always bullied Xia Yunxuan. I knew she wasn’t favored in the family either, and she was the only one I could bully. It made me feel like a person.”

“Since you’re so heartless now, you don’t want me, then I’ll cut ties with you. From now on, we’re two different families. Even if I’m beaten to death by Er Laizi, I won’t come back to you for help.”

Damn it, Xia Yunxuan thought, what kind of twisted logic is that? She’s unhappy and bullied, so she goes to find someone else’s misery? What kind of skill is that? You have the ability to fight back, go bully someone weaker than you, what’s the point?

“Father, Mother, I hope you’ll take care of those two good-for-nothings,” slap, slap. Before Xia Yunge could finish, she was slapped twice.

Xia Yunge’s face immediately swelled up, her mouth was about to bleed. These two really hit hard.

Xia Guo Hua said, “Xia Yunge, if you dare call us good-for-nothings again, I’ll beat you to death. You’re ruined now anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re here or not.”

“Before, we thought you could hook up with a city intellectual, and we could benefit from it. We could go to the city with you and enjoy the good life, you could find us a good job, maybe we could even find a rich wife in the city.”

“Who told you to be so useless and get yourself involved? Cut ties, cut ties. Keeping you around is a waste of food.”

“Heh, you two are truly a family. You’re all heartless, you’re so cruel to your own family. Neither of you are good people.”

“You want to find a wife from the city? Probably only a blind woman would look at you. Ugly, no skills, lazy, what qualifications do you have to lecture me?”

“You two are really stupid, you have no self-awareness. Those two slaps today have broken all ties between us. We’re strangers from now on.”

Xia Guo Hua: “How dare you have an attitude when your elder brother disciplines you? You’ve really gotten bold. Strangers, fine. Don’t come crawling back to us when you need help.”

“Haha, help me? That’s the funniest joke I’ve ever heard. You’d be lucky if you didn’t leech off of me. What can you help me with? You’ve already eaten all my food.”

“Get out, I don’t want to see you,” Xia Yunge was now filled with despair. She knew what kind of life awaited her. Marrying Er Laizi, a good-for-nothing gambler, with an evil mother-in-law on top of that. What was the difference between this and jumping into a pit of fire?

Other people could ask their family for help, but her family was ashamed of her and wouldn’t let her back. She vowed that if she ever succeeded, she would take revenge on those who bullied her.

After thinking it through, Xia Yunge looked at the Captain and said, “Captain, I’m willing to marry Er Laizi, but I have to cut ties with that family.”