"I saw Sun Lanlan from your village got married to a city guy. They booked the biggest restaurant in the county for the wedding, and the groom’s side came in cars to pick her up. If you really think you’re a princess, why did you fancy my brother? You should marry some city guy too."
"Oh, right, your previous fiancé was somewhat a city guy too, Qin Family Village is practically urban. I heard that man was even a college graduate with a stable job, but he didn’t want you, which is why you ended up marrying my brother. If you ask me, you should thank my brother for marrying you; otherwise, you’d be an old maid by now..."
"Li Hongmei, do we have a feud or something? Shut up," Lin Jiayi interrupted her angrily, "What do you mean the Qin Family didn’t like me? That’s not the case at all. If you keep spouting nonsense, I’ll tear your mouth apart."
It was clearly her who looked down on the Qin Family and didn’t want to marry that cold-hearted man again.
"Yes, we do have a feud."
Li Hongmei had long ripped off the pretense with Lin Jiayi; she is now married and doesn’t care about reputation anymore.
And since she married such a person, she’s having a hard time, and she doesn’t want anyone else to have it easy.
"Our Li Family kindly took you in, and you repay kindness with ingratitude, manipulating my marriage to Ma Dazhuang. If you ask me, my brother should have divorced you long ago, any woman would be better than you, you malicious woman."
The word "divorce" struck heavily in Lin Jiayi’s heart.
These days, Li Hongmei had more than once incited Li Guangyuan to divorce her, simply because her own life was troubled, she wanted to mess with her brother and sister-in-law’s life as well.
At first, she didn’t take it to heart, but now, if Li Guangyuan really has someone else...
A cold sweat broke out on Lin Jiayi’s back.
She couldn’t afford a divorce; the Li Family hasn’t prospered yet, and her good days haven’t even started.
Who would she marry if divorced?
She was pregnant now; a woman who has had a child is seen as ’second-hand’ in the eyes of others, only desirable to widowers or old men—undesirable to everyone else.
A great fear overwhelmed her, not even caring anymore if Li Guangyuan really had someone else on the side.
Her mind kept spinning, thinking of how to make Li Guangyuan change his mind and not divorce her.
She started by softening her tone.
"Guang Yuan, don’t listen to her nonsense. I really didn’t know about the Ma family situation; I was deceived too. I know you love your sisters, and I truly have their best interests at heart."
Originally feeling guilty and letting her lash out—as he couldn’t clear up today’s issue—Li Guangyuan had already warned Cuihua to be careful, who knew what that woman might do when mad...
It was his first time dealing with such a woman, completely unlike Lin Jiayi’s gentle and slight kindness, and it was precisely this that made him unable to stop, and he cheated again.
Seeing Lin Jiayi not mention that incident now, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to console her with a few words, Li Hongmei spoke again.
"Enough with the pretense, who are you performing for here? If you really cared about us, why didn’t you introduce us to work at Qin’s Bun Shop? That’s your sister’s place, even Sun Lanlan works there and I heard she’s some kind of manager, making dozens of yuan a month. Are you saying your own little sisters-in-law can’t even compare to an outsider? Now that Sun Lanlan has married a city guy, even arriving in a car, if you had introduced us to the Bun Shop, maybe we’d have married city guys by now. It seems you just don’t want us to have anything good, you have good opportunities but don’t share them, instead, you introduce a guy like Ma Dazhuang to me. Lin Jiayi, you clearly have ill intentions."
Old Mrs. Li originally didn’t intend to get involved in their affairs, but hearing her daughter’s words, she reconsidered, "Is that really true?"
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