Chapter 175: Save the last shred of dignity
Chapter 175: Save the last shred of dignity
Liu Hai and Jing were thoroughly impressed. They were clapping inside their minds.
You are so cool sister Nana! No wonder my Yukito is cool too. He has inherited that from you! One more slap on my behalf too!
Xiang Wei and Xiang Qingge felt hurt seeing their daughter in such a state. But they couldn’t do anything.
No mother in this whole world will condone such behavior. Nana was right.
“J-Jinhai…” Huian was trembling. “Did you see what she just did!? She hit me! Twice! Say something to her! I’m your wife. I’m Lady Liu!”
Jinhai said coldly. “You should be lucky that it is Nana. Otherwise it would have been me, and trust me, you wouldn’t have been able to bear it.”
Huian bit her lips hard. She blinked her eyes and said nothing for a while. Every door seemed to close at her face to let her save this marriage.
But then an idea seemed to strike her.
“A-Alright.” She took a deep breath. “If you want Nana to give birth to your child…” Every time her heart would bleed admitting it, “then I’m fine with it. But, she will hand over the baby to me. We will give her as much compensation as she wants. Then we will raise it together. This way, we won’t have to divorce!”
“Huian!” Xiang Qingge and Xiang Wei were aghast listening to her nonsense.
Nana was dumbstruck. The twins were looking at her as if she was an idiot. Liu Chunhua felt as if she doesn’t even know this woman anymore. Even Liu Hai and Jing had to hand it to her.
How can a woman be this shameless!?
“Right, Grandma?” she looked at her hopefully.
Grandma Liu was stumped. Even she had to admit that this was not any solution.
“Huian…I…”
Xiang Wei said, “Enough. Huian, I want to talk to you alone. Right now.” He looked at Liu Hai and said, “Please give us some time.”
He nodded.
The Xiang family immediately set off towards her room.
“Huian. Have you lost your mind!? You want to raise Jinhai and Nana’s child together? I will never allow that!”
Huian cried. “What is wrong in that? We will give her whatever compensation she wants.”
Xiang Qingge was starting to get a headache. “Compensation? What compensation will you give a mother in exchange for her baby? It is a life, not a thing or property you are buying! Huian, please keep at least a shred of your dignity. The wife raising a child bore by another woman? Are you even in your senses!”
Xiang Wei somehow reigned in his voice. “Huian, please. You have already embarrassed us enough. Don’t make us ashamed of you even more. We will not watch you raising her child. At least now open your eyes that your marriage has ended. Didn’t Jinhai admit that he was always in love with Nana? Where does that leave you?”
Huian looked at them with utter hatred. “You should support your daughter, not that woman! How can you be so cruel!”
“We are not supporting her; we are showing you the reality. Divorce Jinhai. Please have some self-respect. Okay, answer me. Will you really raise her child with love as if he is your own?”
She stiffened. “O-of course. The news came suddenly so I couldn’t control myself. But he is Jinhai’s child too. I-“
“Stop lying! Just look at your face. You are disgusted with that child. How can you love him? You will ruin his life with your hatred.”
She dug her nails in her palm.
Xiang Qingge held her hand. “Dear, if you have to bend that low for a man that you will lose your dignity in trying to make him yours, then there is no meaning left to that relationship.” She sadly said. “Have you seen how Jinhai looks at you now? There is only loathe in his gaze. You are absolutely nothing to him; you have even lost his friendship. You are merely a stranger now.”
Xiang Wei said. “This is not the end of your life Huian. I believe that you will definitely find a man one day who will really love you. Jinhai was never meant for you.”
“Another man?” she laughed. “I can never love another man as much as I love Jinhai.”
“That is because you are blinded! Try to take off that blindfold and give yourself another chance. Change your perception. Then you will realize the difference.”
Huian stared at them with a vacant look. “Mom, Dad, I think you know what I can do if you force me to separate from him.”
They froze. Last time she tried to cut herself.
“Huian, don’t talk nonsense!”
She laughed maniacally.
Xiang Qingge tried to go near her, but her husband grabbed her shoulder. He silently shook his head.
I will have to find another way to make her divorce Jinhai.
He said. “Alright. We are helpless before you if you try to threaten us with your life. I will talk to Jinhai and negotiate as much as I can.”
She got happy and hugged him. “Thank you, Dad. I knew you would help me.”
She smirked. I knew this threat would work. As long as I scare them with my life, they will do whatever I want.
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Everybody saw the Xiang family coming out.
Xiang Wei asked, “Liu Hai, Jinhai. Can we talk somewhere alone?”
Jinhai stared at him. “Hm.”
Liu Hai also agreed.
Jinhai looked at Nana and gave her an assured nod.
She softly nodded back.
Jing and the twins narrowed their eyes, seeing Huian’s mood all brightened up. She sneered at Nana. But they said nothing.
So, Xiang Wei, Xiang Qingge, Liu Hai, and Jinhai gathered in the study room to have their private talk.