Chapter 18: From now on, I will only recognize him as my husband!

Shen Rongrong’s uncharacteristic behavior left Shen Yueying in a daze.

Based on the old hag’s attitude of wanting a granddaughter-in-law these past few days, she was sure to agree! If Shen Rongrong married into the Chen family, the Gu family could only choose her, wouldn’t she be the winner?

A blood debt to be repaid? Was she just bluffing?

Shen Yueying couldn’t figure out what was going on.

However, Chen Yan, who was sitting by the bed feeding Grandma, was unhappy first. She slammed the bowl of porridge she was feeding Grandma on the table, and while the white porridge splattered everywhere, she stood up and pointed at Shen Yueying!

“What kind of people are you Shen family! You betroth one daughter to two families! You’re unwilling to return the betrothal gifts and cancel the engagement! You just want to force that adopted daughter, who has a chaotic private life and has damaged her brain, on our family! Do you think we’re all fools? If it weren’t for Grandma insisting on marrying into your Shen family, do you think your daughter, whose family are gambling addicts, would be able to climb up to our family?!”

Shen Yueying had been bullied by Chen Yan these past few days. She had been holding a bellyful of anger.

Although Chen Yan wasn’t very old, she had been influenced by her family since she was a child. She volunteered in various welfare units, knew many upper-class people, and had good connections in the hospital.

After she came back, she not only handled things impartially, making sure to pay all the hospital deposits and various fees that Grandma had been exempted from, but also demanded that Gao Hui be fired directly. All the nurses she had secretly gotten to treat Shen Yueying coldly quickly refused whatever gifts she sent and found excuses to leave! Making her seem even more useless in front of Gu Yifeng!

“It’s not interesting for you to talk like that!” Shen Yueying finally couldn’t help but retort, “Is marrying into your family called climbing up? The Gu family gave 6,600 yuan as a betrothal gift, and after discussing it, they gave 8,800 yuan without saying a word. What about you? You value money more than anything else! You calculate every little thing! As if I, Shen Yueying, am someone who would steal or rob!”

As she said this, Shen Yueying cried aggrievedly. If one didn’t know the truth, one would really think that she was a pitiful wife who had suffered all kinds of bullying in her husband’s family.

Only Shen Rongrong knew that she was thinking about her previous experiences in the Chen family.

In her previous life, she was indeed very filial to the whole family when she first married into it. She wasn’t even embarrassed that Chen Yu was called away by the army on the wedding day and didn’t enter the bridal chamber, which made the Chen family very satisfied.

But later, the Chen family discovered that the reason she wasn’t angry was that she didn’t have any thoughts about her husband, and only treated her husband’s family as a savings jar. She would ask for credit for doing work, asking for this and that, and always brought her parents and younger brother to live with them, which annoyed the whole family.

She didn’t want to go with him to the army, saying that since the family couldn’t tolerate her, they should buy her a house to live in alone.

Since the man wasn’t at home, wouldn’t buying a house be a way to show filial piety to her whole family? The Chen family didn’t agree, and Shen Yueying began to resist. She even slept separately from her husband when he came home for the New Year. If they didn’t agree, she would never sleep with him, causing a ruckus.

The Chen family’s elders pitied their son, who had returned to the army on his wedding day and hadn’t even touched his bride after half a year of marriage, so they could only agree to buy a house.

Who knew that she wouldn’t let him touch her even after they bought the house? She wanted furniture again, and she was picky about it. She didn’t want to put the furniture they had bought for the wedding in the new house, and wanted to buy the newest furniture.

Then, unsurprisingly, she took all the ‘old furniture’ back to her parents’ house on the grounds that it was useless.

This matter was like a thorn in their throats, and life became more and more uncomfortable.

Shen Yueying was strong-willed. Knowing that the Chen family wanted offspring, she wanted to have more children to improve her family status. As a result, Chen Yu slept in separate rooms when he came back the first year, and Chen Yu silently went to sleep in the guest room the second year.

Shen Yueying called him wearing a sexy nightgown, but it was useless. She gritted her teeth and cursed him for being a wooden stake, but he sat at the table under the lamp and looked at his military reports as if he hadn’t heard her.

After two years, the bride had become an old bride, and she hadn’t even been opened.

Shen Yueying was so angry that she wanted to get a divorce, but she couldn’t bear to part with her husband’s increasingly high allowances and military salary, so she simply found a gigolo to borrow seeds. As a result, she was discovered by Chen Yan after only a few times. Not only was she caught in bed, but she was almost dragged to the police station in disheveled clothes.

She reacted quickly and threatened the Chen family that if the matter was revealed, she would tell everyone that their son was impotent, and the matter was settled.

But Chen Yan still told her brother about this disgusting thing in its entirety. Since then, Chen Yu never returned to her home again. He still sent money, but he didn’t let her see him until he died on the battlefield and his ashes were sent back.

This led to Chen Yan and Shen Yueying glaring at each other now. Chen Yan was simply disgusted, while Shen Yueying was intertwined with new and old hatred, itching with hatred.

“Alright.”

Grandma saw that her granddaughter was about to scold back and interrupted them, then looked at Shen Rongrong, who was kneeling in front of the bed.

“Have you thought about it? My son should have said the same words to your sister and your parents. Our Chen family has been single-line descendants for five generations, and it has been difficult to have children since the time of the Great Ancestor. And he is a soldier stationed outside, still a special forces unit stationed on the border, and he can’t come home once in a long time. To put it bluntly, marrying him is no different from guarding a living widow.”

Grandma had never used this tone to talk to her before. She had always praised her eldest grandson for being tall, handsome, and loving his wife.

Shen Rongrong looked at Grandma’s serious expression. Although her old eyes were cloudy, they were truly seeing through everything. She knew that the old lady had seen that she had another man in her heart and was only using the Chen family to get married.

She nodded seriously, “I’ve thought about it!”

“Good. I can make the decision to agree to your marriage.” Grandma said with a cold expression, staring at her, “But you must also guarantee to me that you will not have any other intentions after entering the Chen family!”

“I swear by my soul!”

Shen Rongrong raised her hand without even thinking!

“If I marry into the Chen family, I will be wholeheartedly devoted! I will only recognize him as my husband in this life! I will never have any other intentions! If I violate this oath, may I be struck by lightning! May my soul be forever plunged into darkness after death, and may I never be freed!”

Seeing that she had made such a terrible poisonous oath in order to marry into the Chen family, Grandma was silent for a long time.

Finally, she sighed and waved her hand, “You all go out, I’m tired, I want to sleep.”

A group of people were kicked out of the ward. Shen Yueying and Chen Yan stood at the door, looking at each other in a way that didn’t sit right.

Including Shen Rongrong, she only glanced at Chen Yan, and Chen Yan immediately retorted like a little tiger whose fur had been ruffled, “What are you looking at! I’m telling you, even though Grandma agreed to you marrying over! My brother hasn’t agreed yet! The old lady is confused, but my brother isn’t confused! Someone with a chaotic lifestyle like you shouldn’t even think about entering our family! I’ll beat you out even if you come in!”

After saying that, she closed the door and went back to the ward.

Shen Rongrong lowered her head and responded, her mind full of Grandma’s disappointed eyes.

She had a feeling… that she had lost something.

It was quite uncomfortable.

Shen Yueying looked at Shen Rongrong and also felt that she had damaged her brain. She said arrogantly, “I hope you don’t change your mind! You said you would marry into the Chen family, don’t go seduce Gu Yifeng again in a few days!”

Shen Rongrong only glanced at her, without speaking, but her eyes were resentful.

Shen Yueying looked at her sister, who had changed a lot in temperament, and walked away quickly with a slightly unlucky look.

Only Shen Rongrong was left sitting at the door of the ward for a whole day.

Until Chen’s parents came over in the evening and saw a strange girl sitting at the door of the ward, they carefully went into the room to ask what was going on.

Before long, the door of the ward opened, with Chen Yan’s unhappy expression, “My dad told you to come in and eat!”

Shen Rongrong shook her head.

After eating, the spirit slowly recovered, and she became slow again… She didn’t want to change back yet.

However, before she could explain, Chen Yan loudly ridiculed, “You’re putting on airs before you’ve even married in! Eat it or not! Who cares about you!”

Shen Rongrong was stunned for a long time, watching the door close and open again. In the blink of an eye, Chen’s father, Chen Guozhong, appeared at the door, coaxing softly.

“Rongrong, is it? Yanzi said you’ve been sitting at the door all day, come in and have a few bites, let’s talk. Okay?”