Chapter 10 Do you not want to live together anymore? If you don't want to live together anymore, then divorce.

"Shameful?" Chu Yian strode up to Chu Xiuyuan. His cold eyes made Chu Xiuyuan stand there in a daze, and he even forgot what he wanted to say for a moment.

Chu Yian sneered: "In the entire Chu family, apart from you, who else would be embarrassed?"

"Master Chu, you are so good at talking about the principles of being a human being and being an official, and you even want to teach others how to be human beings."

“But ask yourself, have you done it?”

"You can't even be a good person yourself, yet you're so eager to teach others. Aren't you afraid of corrupting others?"

"You keep saying that a man should be upright, support his family, and protect his wife and children from wind and rain."

"But ever since mother married into the Chu family, you seem to have become an invisible person who is dispensable."

"You leave everything to your mother, from household matters to your children to even social interactions outside, and never ask about them, as if none of this has anything to do with you."

"Besides that, for all the expenses of the Chu family over the years, from the gifts exchanged with the masters to the monthly wages of the servants in the mansion, has Lord Chu ever paid a single penny?"

"You keep saying that most of your salary goes to your family, but ever since I can remember, it's been clear that all our money has come from the profits from my mother's shops and her dowry."

"If it weren't for mother's dowry, the Chu family would have been a ruined family by now."

"Excuse me, when did you, Master Chu, give your salary to your family?"

"Hasn't your salary been spent on drinking? When have you ever cared about the lives of your entire family?"

"It's fine if you drank it yourself, but you're going to charge us for it? How can you be so shameless?"

Chu Yian didn't feel that angry at first. He came here to earn five hundred taels of silver and vent his anger on behalf of the Hua family.

But after just a few words, she felt as if the spark in her heart was poured with a bucket of oil, and it instantly turned into a raging fire.

Put yourself in her shoes. If she were Hua, the grass on Chu Xiuyuan's grave would definitely be long enough to be cut and used to feed pigs.

Chu Yian's eyes really wanted to stab someone: "Chu Xiuyuan, you are unworthy of being a father."

"You haven't fulfilled your responsibility to educate your elder brother and younger brother."

"You obviously know the principals of several academies. If you mention it to them and send your elder brother and two younger brothers to take the teaching exam, maybe they can get into the academy."

"But you don't. You're afraid that your elder brother and younger brother are not educated enough and will embarrass you if they are sent to the headmasters."

"You didn't even bother to personally test and teach them, yet you think they're all mediocre, unworthy of you having to go to the headmasters with such dignity."

"My mother, a woman of integrity, also had to go around looking for good teachers for my older brother and two younger brothers."

"For the sake of my children's education, my mother ran around everywhere, losing face and begging for favors everywhere."

"But you turned a blind eye to her embarrassment, or do you think she should do this? You are unworthy of being a husband."

"You were extremely perfunctory towards me and my sister. Just now, when I came to look for you, you didn't even recognize your own daughter."

"Chu Xiuyuan!! Don't you want mother and us children anymore?"

"If you don't want it anymore, just tell me and get out of the Chu family. You're just a useless person at home anyway!"

"Our lives will continue to go on without you without any impact."

Chu Yian's voice was deafening and resounding.

Not only did it make Chu Xiuyuan look unhappy, but it also plunged the entire hall into a strange silence.

Even Hua was stunned. She looked at her stepdaughter foolishly, her heart feeling like it was immersed in a honey pot.

She knew that Chu Yian also had many complaints about Chu Xiuyuan. The children had grown up, but they had never experienced fatherly love.

It would be hypocritical to say that I have no complaints.

But Hua Shi really didn't expect that the girl would be so bold.

Not only did he disparage Chu Xiuyuan in front of so many people, he even refused to call him dad.

Although what Chu Yian said was true, in this era where filial piety is the most important thing, he didn't know what people would say behind his back if he pointed at his father's nose and scolded him.

Doesn’t Chu Yian know?

She must know.

But she still did it. If Yi An didn't want to vent her anger, why would he do that?

Hua's eyes felt sore and this time she really couldn't hold back her tears.

Chu Xiuyuan's face looked very ugly at this time, and it was starting to turn slightly blue. He was trembling all over as he stammered.

The first thing he looked at was not Hua's expression, but the crowd of onlookers and several headmasters.

Seeing the complicated, shocked and disbelieving expressions on everyone's faces, Chu Xiuyuan felt like his head was buzzing.

When he saw the thoughtful and indescribable looks on the heads of several mountain masters, it was like a bolt from the blue, and he almost fell down.

Chu Xiuyuan valued his reputation more than his life when he was out there, but who would have thought that he would be pointed at by his own daughter in public and scolded for being a unfit father and a unfit husband.

He even bluntly said that he was useless in the Chu family.

Chu Xiuyuan almost couldn't catch his breath, and his hands were shaking as he pointed at Chu Yian: "Evil, evil girl! You call your father by his name directly. You have been spoiled by the Hua family for so many years that you have no law to follow..."

Hua Shi was still filled with tears of emotion when she heard Chu Xiuyuan scolding her for being such a sweetheart. Her expression changed instantly.

She stepped forward and slapped Chu Xiuyuan's hand away, protecting Chu Yian behind her. The look in her eyes when she looked at Chu Xiuyuan was sharper than ever before, so sharp that it was unlike the look she usually showed.

"Chu Xiuyuan, what did Yi An say that was wrong? Have you ever cared about the lives of your family members over the years?"

"When Chen was still alive, she took care of Jingqiu and Yi'an. After Chen passed away, I was the one who took care of the two children."

"Have you ever taken care of everything?"

"Since you haven't fulfilled your responsibility to raise and educate him, what right do you have to scold Yi An?"

"Every day you either go to court or come to this Zhuangyuanlou to drink with others. You come to this Zhuangyuanlou less often than you go home."

"I think the Chu Mansion is not your home. This Zhuangyuan Building is it."

"Don't you want to live like this?"

"Since you don't want to live like this anymore, let's get a divorce. After the divorce, even if you live in Zhuangyuan Building every day, no one will say anything to you."

"I don't want you to take care of these kids. You've never taken care of them since they were little!"