“No, A-Liang, I am your wife, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu family. I will not go back. The Gu family is my home.”

Yang Zhaodi looked at him firmly, grasped his hand, and said urgently.

She had a premonition that if she went back, she wouldn't be able to come back.

She didn't want to leave the Gu family.

Now that she's left the Gu family, how can she plead for her brother?

Gu Xiliang stared at her for a while without saying a word, then went back into the house and ignored her.

He took his pillow and went to his mother's room.

Looking at the empty room, Yang Zhaodi felt a pang of sadness.

It was a sleepless night; Yang Zhaodi cried in her room until dawn.

Gu Xiliang tossed and turned in his mother's room, thinking about many things.

He got up early the next morning to prepare breakfast for the children.

Gu Xilan got up and saw her older brother busy in the kitchen: "Big brother, are you alright?"

She looked at her older brother's somewhat haggard face and asked worriedly.

Gu Xiliang habitually rubbed her head: "It's okay, eat your breakfast first, you have to go to school later. Are Pearl and the other two up yet?"

Pearl and her two maids slept together with Gu Xilan last night. All three of them had to go to school, and Gu Xilan didn't let them go with her yesterday.

"Get up, you should be getting ready to come out by now."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xiliang walked out to find his two daughters.

He wanted to give them a chance to prepare themselves mentally.

"Xiao Zhen, Xiao Zhu, if your father divorces your mother, you won't have a mother anymore. Will you blame your father?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhen's eyes welled up with tears, but she still managed to hold them back.

"Dad, I'll listen to you." Xiao Zhen is the eldest sister, so she has endured more and knows more.

Sometimes she envies other people's children.

Because other mothers treat their children well.

Putting aside everything else, just look at how good my grandmother is to my aunt. She always thinks of my aunt when she gets something good.

But their mother always thought of her uncle.

Her mother has changed a lot in the past month, but when she saw her mother staring blankly...

If she asked even one more question, her mother would slap her on the back, a slap that stung.

She didn't dare tell her father.

Sometimes she wondered if she could get a different mother, but she didn't dare ask, afraid of being beaten.

"Dad, where will Mom go?" Xiaozhu asked, bewildered.

Old Master Gu held the two children in his arms and kissed their foreheads. "Your mother will go back to your maternal grandmother's house. From now on, the three of us, father and daughters, will live together, okay? Dad will work hard to earn work points so you can eat and dress well."

"But what if you miss your mother?" Xiaozhu asked again.

Old Master Gu didn't know how to answer, and his eyes had reddened without him noticing.

He felt that the people he had wronged the most were his two children.

Xiao Zhen looked at her younger sister and said softly, "Sister, let's not think about Mother anymore. Have you forgotten how Mother used to beat us? We are nothing in Mother's heart."

When Xiaozhu heard her sister talk about how their mother beat her, her body reflexively shrank back.

Seeing this, Gu Laoda felt even more distressed.

What exactly did that woman do to the children when he couldn't see her?

"Gu Mingzhen, you brat, what are you saying?" Yang Zhaodi's shrill voice rang out from behind.

The two Pearl sisters trembled with fright and hid in the arms of Gu Laoda in fear.

When Gu Laoda looked up, he saw Yang Zhaodi with a ferocious expression, holding a stick and hitting Xiao Zhen from behind. His pupils contracted, and he used his hands to protect the two children behind him.

"Yang Zhaodi, believe it or not, I'll chop your hand off."

With a loud crack, Boss Gu took a solid hit from the stick.

It hurts, it really hurts.

He strongly suspected that the area where he was hit was swollen.

He lifted his shirt and saw that there really was a deep mark. The area around it was swollen.

How painful it would be if that hit a child!

"Yang Zhaodi, how many times have I told you not to hit the child? Have you been ignoring me all along?"

Boss Gu was very angry, very angry.

He snatched the wooden stick from Yang Zhaodi's hand, broke it in half, and threw it aside.

Yang Zhaodi then realized what she had done in front of him.

"I, I didn't mean to."

Yang Zhaodi's heart was pounding. She tried to comfort him by touching the spot where she had hit him: "Does it hurt, A-Liang? I didn't mean to. You have to believe me, I was just angry for a moment, I won't do it again next time."

Gu Xiliang grabbed her outstretched hand and flung it aside.

He is now completely disappointed in her, and he will never believe a word she says again.

"Father, Father, are you alright?" Pearl and the other girl heard the sound of the stick falling and asked Gu Xiliang anxiously.

Gu Xiliang patted the heads of the two girls with both hands, feeling very gratified.

He gently pushed his two daughters toward the kitchen and coaxed them softly, "Daddy's fine. Pearl, be good. Go to the kitchen for breakfast first, and then go to school with your aunt."

After watching his two daughters disappear into the distance, Gu Xiliang turned to Yang Zhaodi and said expressionlessly, "You'll be coming with me to town later."

He's definitely getting a divorce.

He then went back to his room to find something.

Divorce also requires supporting documentation.

Yang Zhaodi looked at Gu Xiliang's back, somewhat puzzled.

She only heard Xiao Zhen's last words; she didn't know what the three of them had said before.

At that moment, she thought that Gu Xiliang's offer to go to town with her was to visit her younger brother.

Pearl and Gu Xilan quickly finished their breakfast and ran out with their schoolbags.

Jiang Jinxiu then came out of the house.

She had to go to the hospital, so she didn't sleep in.

As soon as Yang Zhaodi saw Jiang Jinxiu, it was like seeing hope. She rushed over to her in a few quick steps: "Third sister-in-law, look, I've already compensated you for my brother's money and returned the tiles. Could you please talk to the police and ask them to let my brother go?"

I only have one younger brother. He's the only son in our Yang family.

Jiang Jinxiu looked at her with an idiotic expression: "Yang Zhaodi, do you really think I own the police station? You can lock up whoever you want and release whoever you want?"

She called him by his full name.

Jiang Jinxiu felt that Yang Zhaodi was not worthy of being called "elder sister-in-law".

"Aren't you close with that Officer Huang? Why don't you ask him for help? He'll definitely agree."

Jiang Jinxiu really didn't want to pay attention to this brainless woman: "Yang Zhaodi, do you think I'm a saint who can help with anything? If you want to save your brother, then figure it out yourself, don't bother me."

Jiang Jinxiu tried to walk away after avoiding her.

But Yang Zhaodi saw her as a lifeline, so how could she let her go so easily?

She grabbed Jiang Jinxiu's clothes and knelt down: "Third sister-in-law, I beg you, I beg you, please help me, please help my brother."