Chapter 15: I'll Get Half of the Shop After Divorce

Zhou Lin's face turned pale in an instant, his eyes filled with shock and hurt.

Su Hexi, however, seemed to feel that this was not enough and continued to add fuel to the fire. She looked directly at Zhou Lin and said in a frivolous and vicious tone, "Zhou Lin, listen carefully. There are two options. Either you come with me to get a divorce now, immediately, and we can part ways and live in peace."

She paused, watching the Zhou family's suddenly changed expressions, and slowly added, "Or else, be prepared to be a cuckold for the rest of your life. From today on, I'm going to go out and flirt every day, dressing up like a slut, so that everyone in town can see what kind of wife you, Zhou Lin, have married! I wonder how long you can endure this!"

She was determined to get a divorce and was not afraid to throw dirty water on herself.

"You two," she said, her fingers sweeping across Wang Huixian and Zhou Lanyin, "quickly persuade your Zhou family's eldest son to be a man and let me go. I'm telling you, if he agrees to a divorce, I'll crawl to the Civil Affairs Bureau and sign the papers even if I have only one breath left!"

After she finished speaking, without even glancing at Zhou Lin's instantly disheartened face or the stunned expressions of the Zhou family, she turned around, held her head high, and walked straight out of the Zhou family yard, the place that suffocated her, like a victorious peacock.

There was deathly silence behind me.

After several seconds, Wang Huixian's wailing voice could be heard: "What a sin! Our Zhou family has truly committed a sin! Rinzi, what do you want with a woman like this!"

Zhou Lin stood there, his body stiff as a stone, his fingers clenched tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms. He watched Su Hexi's back as she resolutely left, his heart feeling as if it had been ripped open, a cold wind whistling inwards.

In the end, he simply said in a hoarse voice to his wailing mother and his angry siblings, "Don't meddle in my affairs. I won't get a divorce. I will... live a good life with her."

After saying this, he no longer looked at his family's disappointed and painful expressions, turned around, and strode out.

Behind him, Wang Huixian beat her chest and cried, "As expected! You've forgotten your mother now that you have a wife! My poor son... What kind of magic potion has she drugged you with?"

Zhou Lanyin also said indignantly: "What's so good about Su Hexi! Sister Jinglin is such a good person, it would be great if Big Brother divorced his wife and married Sister Jinglin! It's a pity that Sister Jinglin is deeply in love with Big Brother and is still waiting for him!"

Zhou Zhisheng looked at his elder brother's back as he hurriedly chased after him, then looked at his crying mother and sister. He sighed heavily, his brows twisted into a knot.

I'm afraid this family will never have peace again.

Zhou Lin caught up with Su Hexi in a few steps. She exuded a sense of keeping strangers away. He didn't dare to get too close, so he could only follow her half a step away. His voice was very low, full of caution and confusion:

"Xiaoxi...why did you just say that about yourself? I know you're not that kind of person. What exactly do you want to do? Tell me and I'll help you, okay?"

He really couldn't understand. She was clearly making clothes seriously, so why did she have to throw dirty water on him and make their relationship even more strained?

Su Hexi suddenly stopped and turned around, a sneer on her face. In order to force him to divorce, she didn't hesitate to say something even more unpleasant: "Why? Because what I said is the truth! I am just that kind of person! Vanity, laziness, and I like to attract bees and butterflies! It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future! Zhou Lin, I'm telling you, this is just the beginning!"

She took a step closer, her eyes filled with a look of desperate determination. "You don't want a divorce, do you? Fine! You watch me, starting tomorrow, not only will I be flirting on the streets, I'll also be turning that tailor shop into a teahouse, a tavern! Then, there'll be plenty of men to greet and see off, drinking and playing drinking games! I wonder how high you can wear this cuckold!"

Her words were like poisoned needles, piercing Zhou Lin's heart one by one.

His face was ashen, his jawline was tense, and pain and anger were swirling in his eyes.

He took a deep breath, as if he had finally been pushed to his limit. His attitude became unusually tough, and his voice was deep but full of unquestionable power: "Su Hexi! We bought that tailor shop while we were married. I paid for it, and I own half of it! Any changes you want to make must be approved by me! I have the final say!"

He stared into her eyes and warned her word by word: "If you don't tell me what you want to do and continue to talk nonsense and abuse yourself like this, I have the right to close that shop! I mean what I say!"

Su Hexi was shocked by his sudden toughness, and then she was even more furious! He actually dared to threaten her? Close her shop?

"You dare!"

"Do you think I dare?" Zhou Lin refused to back down, his eyes more resolute than ever before. He could tolerate her quarrels, her behavior, even her beatings and scoldings, but he couldn't watch her push him away in such a self-destructive way.

The two men confronted each other like fighting cocks, and the air was filled with gunpowder.

In the end, Su Hexi was defeated.

That shop was her only hope. She didn't dare to bet whether Zhou Lin would really close her shop. After all, her memory was still fresh of how he forced the original owner.

She was so angry that her chest heaved violently. She glared at him fiercely, gritted her teeth, and reluctantly squeezed out the truth: "I'm going to sell clothes! Who would buy the clothes I make if I don't wear them out to show people?! Are they going to get moldy if they hang in the shop?!"

So that's how it is...

Zhou Lin's tense heartstrings relaxed slightly, but then he felt helpless and distressed by her extreme approach. Just sell clothes, why bother saying it like that...

After knowing the truth, his tone softened: "Selling clothes... is a serious business. But don't talk about yourself like that in the future... it's not good."

Su Hexi snorted coldly and turned her head away from him, "It's none of your business whether it's good or not!"

"Of course it's my business. If you want to divorce me, I will definitely take the shop."

Su Hexi was so angry at Zhou Lin that her hair stood on end. "Why do you want to divide my shop?"

"Just because I'm your man now, we're still married, and I paid the money, if you want to divorce me, I'm going to take the shop and not give it to you!"

"I'll return your few coins!"

"Even if you return it to me, the shop was acquired during our marriage and is considered joint property. I also own half of it. If you don't want me to share the shop, you can't divorce me. I don't care about your shop anymore."

Zhou Lin discovered that Su Hexi seemed to care particularly about the tailor shop. As long as he could control the tailor shop, she probably would not divorce him in the short term.

Su Hexi left angrily.

Zhou Lin followed her silently and sent her back to the shop. But when he saw that she was so angry that she couldn't speak and didn't mention divorce anymore, he felt a little happy.

As the two men walked to the door of the shop, they saw a middle-aged man with a briefcase waiting there, looking a little impatient.

The man looked them up and down and asked, "Are you the current owner of this shop?"

Su Hexi frowned: "I am. Who are you?"

"I'm the landlord of this house!" the man said in a bad tone. "I'm here to collect this month's rent! It's already several days overdue! They didn't even bother to deliver it to me, so I had to rush them!"

"Rent?" Su Hexi was stunned. "When I bought this shop, I already paid the transfer fee to the previous owner! Why is someone here to collect rent again? What's it got to do with you?"