Ye Qingqing was not surprised. During the argument last week, she could tell that Lin Baiwei really wanted a divorce. This week seemed calm, but perhaps it was the calm before the storm.

Lin Bai smiled self-deprecatingly, "I don't have any friends here, and my parents and relatives aren't here either. I don't even have anyone to talk to. I hope you can forgive me."

"It's alright, I'm free anyway. You can tell me anything you need to do, and I'm not a gossip, so you can rest assured," Ye Qingqing said with a smile.

Lin Baiwei relaxed a little. "Our family's affairs have become common knowledge in the neighborhood. I've lost all face and I'm not afraid of losing face anymore. Actually, I had the idea of ​​divorce two years ago, but I always thought about Xiao Jie and didn't make up my mind. This time, I really couldn't bear it anymore."

"Don't you have any feelings for your husband at all?" Ye Qingqing asked.

Lin Bai smiled wryly and shook his head. "I'm not afraid you'll laugh at me, but actually, I didn't marry him because of love. I've reached a certain age, and all my relatives and friends are saying that I should get married, otherwise my life won't be complete. Everyone says that, including my parents. They call me twenty times a day. Can you understand that feeling?"

Ye Qingqing smiled and shook her head, "I haven't experienced it, but I can understand. It must be really hard to bear."

"It's more than just unpleasant; they've completely disrupted my life and work, but I can't avoid them because they're my family, unless I go to outer space."

Lin Bai sighed and said, "At that time, I was actually partly acting out of spite. Since you all urged me to get married and thought that I would only be complete if I got married, then I would get married to show you. It just so happened that Xiao Jie's father appeared in front of me. To be honest, his conditions were not the best, but I felt that he was an honest person and someone I could handle."

"So you're not actually looking for a husband, but rather a business partner you can manage?" Ye Qingqing concluded.

Lin Bai nodded slightly. "Yes, it turns out that my idea was wrong, and my judgment of people was also poor. Xiao Jie's father is honest at work, but in life he is cunning and calculating like a small farmer. I have tolerated all of that, but I cannot tolerate his parents harming my child. As you can see, Xiao Jie is malnourished and has a lot of bad habits. If he doesn't correct them, he probably has no future."

Ye Qingqing spoke frankly, "Actually, you can't completely blame your mother-in-law. If Xiao Jie didn't take good care of him, it's only because his parents didn't fulfill their responsibilities. After all, you are his parents, and your in-laws have no obligation to do so."

Lin Bai nodded slightly. "I know, that's why I wanted them to go back to their hometown to live a long time ago and hire a nanny to take care of the child. But Xiao Jie's father disagreed, saying that no outsider could take care of the child as well as his parents. Besides, I give my mother-in-law five thousand yuan every month. I was just thinking of hiring a nanny at a high price. But the employees I hired at a high price don't listen to my arrangements. Now, I have to fire them and dissolve my partnership."

Lin Baiwei remained calm throughout, and Ye Qingqing could tell that this woman truly had no feelings for her husband anymore.

It's also possible that she never had any feelings for him when she got married; she was simply looking for a business partner. After working together for over ten years, she discovered that the man didn't meet her requirements, so she announced the end of the partnership.

As expected of a postdoctoral fellow, she handles relationships with remarkable rationality, without any hesitation or ambiguity.

"But have you considered Xiao Jie's feelings? A complete family is actually the best environment for a child to grow up in. You can certainly provide Xiao Jie with the best material life, but you cannot meet his spiritual needs," Ye Qingqing reminded him.