Chapter 2 Husband and son stabbed each other in the back

Whether it was Yu Yan's resolute attitude or the hundreds of millions in divorce fees that made Xiang Jingheng realize the seriousness of the situation, he asked the car downstairs to wait, adopting a posture of wanting to have a good talk with Yu Yan.

This is the first time in three years of marriage that the two of them have communicated face-to-face.

"Why?"

Having been in a high position for a long time, Xiang Jingheng's first words were a cold interrogation: "Is it because I drank too much at a business dinner last night, or because I said a few words to you this morning?"

Before Yu Yan could speak, Xiang Jingheng began to defend himself in a deep voice.

“Yu Yan, that’s how life is. Men work hard to build their careers outside, and when they get married, they want a wife who can provide them with a stable home. I don’t think I’ve ever treated you badly.”

He glanced at the divorce agreement. "Right now, the group is undergoing a transformation and development phase. I'm so busy every day that I inevitably neglect my family. Things will get better after this period. I'll pretend you never mentioned the divorce."

After finishing speaking to himself, Xiang Jingheng got up to leave.

Yu Yan took the phone from his hand, opened WeChat, and played the voice message between Gan Xiaoxing and him.

"You checked my phone?" Xiang Jingheng's face turned cold instantly. "Yu Yan, you come from a scholarly family, how can you have no manners at all!"

He was furious and abruptly snatched the phone back.

Xiang Jingheng's phone was not password protected, perhaps because he was certain that Yu Yan would not be able to access it, or perhaps because he felt emboldened.

Yu Yan hadn't actually looked through it. If it weren't for the fact that she was serving him while he was drunk last night and her phone accidentally fell to the ground, and she accidentally clicked on a photo sent by Gan Xiaoxing when she picked it up...

He even called another woman "Mom" with his son, and then he still scolded her for being ill-mannered?

Yu Yan genuinely loved Xiang Jingheng when she married him; otherwise, she wouldn't have been willing to have a child with him. She knew she wasn't Xiang Jingheng's type, but she still hoped that they could fall in love over time after marriage.

The two of them lived a peaceful and stable life.

But all of this was just wishful thinking on her part.

He doesn't even have the most basic respect for her, so how could he possibly love her?

It's time to wake up.

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When Xiang Jingheng left home, he was still in a bad mood because something had happened at the company.

When her in-laws learned that Yu Yan had filed for divorce, they transferred all of Xiang Jingheng's assets overnight, leaving him penniless and ensuring that she wouldn't get a single penny from him.

Yu Yan really wanted to laugh.

It turns out that the so-called "family" was just her perception; whether it was a daughter-in-law or a daughter-in-law, they were ultimately outsiders.

"If you want to leave, then leave on your own. Xiao Chu is a member of the Xiang family, and she absolutely cannot go with you!"

"Xiao Chu".

Yu Yan looked at her son sitting in her mother-in-law's lap and asked him with her last glimmer of hope, "Would you like to come with your mother?"

Children are flesh of their mother's flesh, and what she can't bear to part with most is her child.

"I don't want to."

Xiang Chu answered decisively, her tone serious and cold: "Dad earns all the money in the house, all you do is spend it. You'll starve to death without Dad, and I won't go with you."

Yu Yan felt a draft in her heart, and the pain made her face turn deathly pale instantly.

Sure enough, it's the most ruthless thing for your own son to stab you in the back.

In upstate states, these professions seem to be more valuable than being a mother: childcare worker, tutor, nanny.

Because those are professions, while "mother" is just a title.

It doesn't matter if someone else calls you that.

And so, Yu Yan left the Xiang family penniless, kicked out of the family. She had nothing with her when she left, not even a suitcase, for fear that she might have hidden some treasures and taken them with her.

The husband, who kept saying he didn't want a divorce and wanted to have a serious talk with her, never showed up.

Merchants value profit more than parting.

These families were never from the same social circle; the so-called arranged marriage was nothing but a joke.

As Yu Yan walked out of the villa area in her faded old clothes, she ran into Gan Xiaoxing driving a convertible sports car into the Xiang family home. Gan Xiaoxing glanced at her and gave her a contemptuous smile.

That look in his eyes was one of disdain and arrogance towards his "defeated opponent".

Yu Yan left the Xiang family and dialed a number: "Senior sister, please hire a lawyer for me. I want to reclaim all the patents my parents hold in the Xiang Group and transfer all their shares. Yes, I want to cash them out directly."

Since they took back the betrothal gifts, she took back her dowry.

"Also, could you please tell Professor Bai that I've thought about what he told me three days ago? I'm willing to go to the WD research lab for closed-door research and join the B-chip project."

Holding her still-warm divorce certificate, Yu Yan paid respects to her parents, visited her retired grandparents in Mesopotamia, and then boarded a plane to M. country.

Xiang Jingheng, who also received his divorce certificate, suffered from insomnia.