Upon hearing this, Lan Yao and Gu Zixiao exchanged a glance and exclaimed in unison, "How melodramatic! How could there be such a melodramatic plot? Isn't this something you only hear in storybooks?"

Gu Zixiao: "A few years ago, when I was on missions, I often saw stories like this in the newspapers."

Lan Yao: "Isn't that right? I've seen many versions of this type too."

Besides, in the modern world where the internet was highly developed in my previous life, there were countless novels of this type, not to mention TV series, comics, anime, and so on...

Grandma Yu smiled mysteriously: "My story isn't finished yet. You young people just don't have much patience."

Gu Zixiao: "We were just too surprised, so we expressed our feelings."

Lan Yao: "Alright, that's enough. Now let's listen to Grandma Yu finish telling this story."

Grandma Yu then continued telling the story.

When the woman first heard this, she was naturally very sad, but after all, this was the husband she had been waiting for to return for many years.

Even though she was heartbroken, she still decided to accept her husband's new wife and children.

However, her husband did not agree with the woman's determination and ideas.

He even demanded a divorce, saying he would leave with nothing.

The woman disagreed and rejected her husband's unreasonable request.

The husband, however, ignored him, saying, "I have made a promise to another person that I will only marry her for the rest of my life. And I will only stay by her side and spend my whole life with her."

Besides, as both a husband and a father, I must set a good example and not let my children lose trust in me. So let's end our relationship here.

In this life, I consider myself to have wronged you. If there is an afterlife, I will surely strive to repay the debt of gratitude I owe you in these two lifetimes.

Having said all that, the woman, no matter how unwilling, had no choice but to heartbrokenly agree to her husband's demands, agreeing to a divorce and forcing him to leave with nothing.

The husband got what he wanted. He left home that same day after finishing his business and has been missing ever since.

The woman was initially heartbroken and in unbearable pain.

Later, with the help of others, she emerged from the shadows, found a good man to marry, and had twins within three years of marriage.

It was New Year's Eve again. This year, the woman and her husband had a family reunion. After finishing their New Year's Eve dinner, they took their children out to set off fireworks and firecrackers, and coincidentally ran into their former neighbor.

This neighbor was a comrade-in-arms of the woman's ex-husband. He happened to run into the woman today and remembered her ex-husband. He said to her, "It's good that you can remarry. You can be said to have fulfilled your husband's last wish."

The woman let out a cold laugh, unwilling to mention a single word about her ex-husband.

Her new husband, unwilling to let his wife suffer any injustice, secretly cursed his comrade-in-arms.

When her comrades learned the truth, they were first astonished and bewildered, then said to the woman incredulously, "How is that possible? Your husband died in that battle long ago. Have you seen a ghost?"

Grandma Yu's story ends here.

Lan Yao blinked. "Grandma, are you done telling your story?"

Grandma Yu nodded.

Lan Yao: ...

Then Lan Yao gave your grandma a thumbs up.

"When it comes to the abrupt ending and suspense of a story, Grandma Yu, you are the best."

Objectively speaking, Grandma Yu's story is quite ordinary. However, her brilliant finishing touch at the end was simply brilliant.

If Lan Yao listened to Grandma Yu's account, she could probably guess what had happened.

It's just that her husband, who died many years ago, returned as a ghost. He didn't want to see his wife remain a widow for the rest of her life, so he made up a bizarre story to separate his wife from him, make her resent him for the rest of her life, and then remarry and live her own life.

This husband is truly a man of conscience.

Grandma Yu smiled modestly: "It's alright, it's alright."

Next up was Gu Zixiao.

So Grandma Yu and Lan Yao both looked at Gu Zixiao.

Gu Zixiao was an elderly man. With both ladies watching him simultaneously, he was honestly a little nervous.

He touched his nose. "My storytelling skills are probably not as good as yours. So please don't laugh at me."

Grandma Yu spoke first: "What's so funny? It's just something to pass the time while keeping watch."

Lan Yao: "If you don't know how to say it, you can just make one up. We promise we'll listen carefully."

Gu Zixiao: ...

Why do I feel like you're not listening attentively?

However, since Lan Yao had said so, Gu Zixiao naturally wouldn't back down.

The story he told was based on his own experiences, and the background of the story was something that could happen anywhere around him.

This is a story about male chauvinism.

When a woman marries a man and gives birth to seven or eight daughters, both the mother-in-law and the man are very unhappy.

Because their family was a single-lineage clan, the women in their family kept giving birth to girls.

This caused the villagers to laugh at their family, so the man not only couldn't hold his head up in the village, but also had a very low status among his relatives.

This leads to men being very dissatisfied with women, and when they return home, they beat and kick their wives and daughters.

One time, the woman couldn't take it anymore, so she ran away to hide in the mountains.

The men in the family not only refused to go looking for their wives, but they also wished for the women to die outside so that they could be with their eldest daughter.

"Wait a minute..." Lan Yao stopped, "You just said you were with your eldest daughter?"

Lan Yao's face turned pale as she thought of something unpleasant.

Even Grandma Yu's expression wasn't good; clearly, she had heard before that some men in remote areas liked to mess around with their own daughters.

Gu Zixiao nodded, expressionless: "That's true."

Lan Yao: "...Alright, go on."

Gu Zixiao continued, saying that the woman didn't die and returned a few days later.

However, the woman who returned seemed to have changed.

The man couldn't quite put his finger on what was different, but from that day on, the woman made chicken soup for him every day.

Their family was already poor; let alone chickens, they were lucky to even have cornbread.

But men don't care how women got the chickens; as long as they're the ones eating them, that's all that matters.

Several months later, one day the drunk man suddenly returned home and started punching and kicking the woman. But instead of being beaten and scolded by him, the woman suddenly fought back and pinned him down. Then, for several years, the man kept having children, including a son.

Because the family was poor and couldn't afford to marry off their sons, the older sons pressured their father to have children for them...

Lan Yao: ...

Grandma Yu: ...

What kind of bizarre story is this?

Lan Yao: ...Wait, why does this feel so familiar to me?