Mao Fangfei's face fell immediately, her eyes dimmed, and she felt a strange unease in her heart. For the first time, she felt resistant towards her parents.

From childhood to adulthood, she always listened to her parents, studied hard, and made progress every day. She won awards every year and was admitted to medical school according to her parents' wishes. She also stayed at the school to teach, just as her parents had suggested. However, she didn't really like teaching. She always felt that she was working in a dead-sea-like environment every day, and she could see the end of it all before her eyes. She had no passion for it.

Even if she were to become a professor like her parents, Mao Fangfei wouldn't feel happy.

She had never considered her career before, thinking that it would be good to be a teacher for life, just like her parents and siblings. But after being scolded by Ye Qingqing that day, Mao Fangfei felt that she was regressing and was not even as good as a little girl.

She had a dream when she was little, what was it again?

Oh, and she wants to be a forensic pathologist.

When she was in school, she watched a TV series about solving crimes. She didn't envy the heroic female detectives, but she was extremely envious of the aloof female forensic doctor. She always fantasized that she could become a great forensic doctor herself, making the dead talk and leaving criminals nowhere to hide.

Although she studied medicine, she didn't become a nurse; instead, she became a well-behaved teacher.

Mao Fangfei laughed self-deprecatingly. Her career had no future, her marriage was a mess, and she couldn't even protect Huihui. How could her life be such a failure!

He's a complete and utter loser.

“Mom, I have to get what I deserve.” Mao Fangfei raised her head, looked bravely at her mother, and said 'no' for the first time.

Mao's mother was taken aback and looked somewhat displeased. She patiently advised, "Your mother-in-law is a rude countrywoman. When she makes a scene, she doesn't care about anything and has no regard for her reputation. Our Mao family can't afford to lose face like that. It's just a little bit of property. There's no need to make a big deal out of it. Just get a proper divorce from Xiao Ruan."

For Mao's parents, reputation was of utmost importance. Both she and her husband were respected professors who had never argued with anyone in decades. But Old Mrs. Ruan was the complete opposite. She was a shrewish country bumpkin who used foul language and acted like a scoundrel. After witnessing her once, Mao's mother developed a phobia of the old lady.

She couldn't afford to offend them, so she had to avoid them. As a professor, she wouldn't stoop to the level of a shrew, nor did she want her youngest daughter to cause a huge scene with the Ruan family over a little money, which would only lead to gossip and criticism behind her back.

Mao Fangfei was extremely disappointed. Pointing to her broken leg, which was in a cast, she raised her voice, "It's not that I'm making a scene, it's that old woman trying to murder me. I was lucky I didn't die from the fall."

Mother Mao hesitated for a moment, speechless, still feeling a little sorry for her. But thinking of Old Lady Ruan's domineering and unreasonable behavior, she felt a headache coming on.

"It's unlikely to be murder. It was probably a fit of anger. I think your mother-in-law is quite regretful. She's old; she couldn't possibly bear going to jail. Outsiders would just say you're petty..."

Mao's mother patiently persuaded her, explaining that these were opinions she and her husband had discussed, and that she didn't want her daughter to make a scene and send her mother-in-law to prison herself, as the gossip outside could be infuriating.

"She killed my Huihui, I won't forgive her!" Mao Fangfei cried. Even now, the thought of Huihui being braised still aches in her heart. How could her mother not understand her feelings at all!

“Feifei…”

Madam Mao looked displeased and was about to persuade her again when a capable woman in her early thirties walked in. "Mom, we should support Fangfei. The Ruan family has really gone too far. We must fight the lawsuit and make Ruan Lizong leave with nothing!"