"Mother, are you my mother?" Yunzhi looked at Xu Shi with a sad expression, tears streaming down her face.

His heartbroken appearance was so distressing.

Yunzhi was already beautiful, and now that she was shedding tears, not only the men, but even the older women felt sorry for her.

Feeling compassion, everyone prepared to criticize Xu Shi, saying, "What kind of mother is that? Isn't this tantamount to forcing Yunzhi to die?"

However, Yunzhi spoke first, tears streaming down her face, "Yes, I'm divorced, but what did I do wrong? First, I didn't wrong my husband's family; on the contrary, it was An Xiuyuan who wronged me. Not only did he have a girl he liked, but he also had a child with her before marriage. I won't even mention that. But as soon as that mistress entered the mansion, he wanted to demote his wife to a concubine. I am a legitimate daughter, married with proper ceremony, and entered the mansion in a grand sedan chair. How could he do the opposite? Therefore, what wrong did I do by divorcing him?"

"Miss Yun, you are not wrong, it is Marquis Dingyuan who is wrong!"

Yunzhi glanced at the speaker and continued, "Secondly, this marriage was arranged for me by my mother and father, right? From beginning to end, I wasn't involved at all. I never met the other party, and I didn't even know what kind of person he was. It was an arranged marriage, a blind marriage, did I say anything? No. Now that I'm divorced and returning home, don't you bear any responsibility? If you had properly investigated An Xiuyuan's background back then, would I have gotten a divorce?"

"Thirdly, let's talk about my dowry. It was originally supposed to be prepared by you, Mother. But did you prepare it? No. The reason I have a dowry is because my maternal grandparents and uncles and aunts felt sorry for me having an unreliable mother, so they specially prepared it for me."

"Since this isn't from the Yun family, and it's not the dowry my mother prepared for me, why should I give it to you? Compensating the girls in the family—that sounds nice, but it's nothing more than my mother thinking my second sister's dowry isn't as much as mine, and wanting to transfer mine to her."

"You, you, you're talking nonsense!" Madam Xu pointed at Yunzhi's nose, her words slurred. This time, she was truly enraged.

The reason she didn't stop Yunzhi just now was twofold: firstly, she hadn't realized what was happening. The Yunzhi before her was so different from the one before their marriage.

Before Yunzhi got married, she was timid and didn't even dare to raise her voice, let alone speak. But look at her now, speaking so much in front of everyone without the slightest fear.

"Mother, am I not telling the truth? Otherwise, my brother just said you were sick and should be resting in bed. Why would you come to our door and say such high-sounding things? What is it all for? It's nothing more than wanting my dowry."

"I originally thought that after something like this happened, my family would be my safe haven. But who would have thought that all the storms would be brought to me by my family?"

"Therefore, I hereby declare that from today onwards, I have no further connection with the Yun family. Fellow villagers here, please bear witness for me. From this day forward, I, Yun Zhi, will establish my own household and will have no family of my own."

After saying that, Yunzhi put on a heartbroken look and said to her subordinates, "Let's go. From now on, the Yun family has nothing to do with me, Yunzhi."

"Yes, Miss!" Ru Mei and the others gave the Yun family mother and her two children a deep look, then ordered the carriage to be turned around and headed towards the other courtyard.

Yunzhi, however, seemed to transform into a completely different person the moment she sat in the carriage.