Chapter 168 Wicked Stepmother and Poor Child 61

He could accept being ousted by his political enemies or having an accident while in office, but he just couldn't accept being sued by his own wife, which caused him to lose his chance to become an official!

Old Madam Gu couldn't bear the blow and fainted on the spot. In this situation, it would have been better if she had just died. If she had known, she shouldn't have lived for so many years. She should have died sooner, so that she could have been the mother of a top scholar even in death!

Shen Ci stood there, watching all of this. She felt not much joy, but only a sense of relief. The shackles that fate had maliciously placed on the two children were finally broken at this moment.

Two children who had done nothing wrong should not have met such a tragic end.

But there's a saying that fate plays tricks on people, and fate never follows the ideal course. It's okay, this time they have their mother protecting them.

If everything were to develop in an idealized way, it wouldn't be called fate; fate has always loved to play tricks on people.

Finally, through her own strength, she broke free from these shackles and fought for a clean future for her two children and for herself.

The crowd outside the hall gradually dispersed, but Shen Ci's heroic act of divorcing her husband, as well as Gu Hongjian's evil deeds, would soon become famous throughout the capital. Even infamy is fame.

Behind the screen, the King of Qin slowly finished the tea in his cup, which had gone cold, and got up to leave. This woman had indeed surprised him time and time again.

She has broken free from the shackles of the past and now knows who she truly is. She has succeeded.

There were clearly easier and simpler methods, but she just wouldn't use them. Instead, she insisted on taking this clumsy and least likely method to try her luck.

Is it foolish? No, it's not.

It is resilience.

Gu Hongjian was taken away by the yamen runners. He had no backing in the court and came from a poor family, making him an easy target for powerful families who were eager to oust him. The Zhou family, the only family with whom he had any connection, would not help him at this moment.

He's eager to beg for help when he needs it, but abandons it when he doesn't. Who would help him then?

"Ding-dong!"

Villain's salvation value +20, current salvation value 80%!

The rescue value increased by twenty points at once, which means that a lot was saved at once. She successfully divorced her husband and successfully took the children away. The source of the children's life tragedy was nipped in the bud.

They will no longer grow up in the Gu family mansion, no longer have to face their scheming stepmother, and no longer have to face their biological father's ruthlessness and exploitation.

Although Madam Gu loved them dearly, in her original life trajectory, after Zhou Jingxuan's child was born, the focus of her life changed with her son's favoritism and Shen Ci's death, and she no longer valued the twins.

Shen Ci successfully exposed and made Gu Hongjian pay the price for his concubine's murder of his wife and for plotting against his first wife. He was stripped of his official position and exiled thousands of miles away.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, he will never be able to return to the capital. The man who once used his status as a biological father to ruthlessly scheme against his children will no longer be able to pose any threat or influence to their future as a father.

He was nothing but a sinner, an exile.

The alliance formed by Gu Hongjian's indifference, Madam Gu's meanness, and Zhou Jingxuan's ruthlessness, which was originally destined to be on the same path, has now been completely shattered.

New challenges may arise on the road ahead, but we have already avoided this one, haven't we? No, we have completely destroyed this greatest threat.

Shen Ci slowly walked out of the gate of the Jingzhao Prefecture. The winter sun shone warmly on her, dispelling the most important matter weighing on her heart. She cleared away the gloom that had been hanging over the children.

The Shen family members, who had been waiting outside, immediately surrounded her. Shen's mother hugged her tightly, her eyes filled with tears.

"My son has been wronged, my son has suffered so much!"

Although Shen's father and Shen Zheng didn't say much, their eyes reddened with emotion. This child had finally jumped out of the fire pit she herself had once jumped into.

They didn't rely on others, but climbed out on their own, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, and were reborn.

Gu Mingzhu and Gu Mingzhang, who were being led by their maternal grandfather and uncle, immediately broke free and ran over like two little birds, tightly hugging Shen Ci's legs on either side.

The two children looked up at each other, their eyes sparkling with dependence.

Shen Ci knelt down and hugged the two children tightly in her arms. The children were both alive and well, she asked softly.

"Mingzhu, Mingzhang, will you resent your mother for treating your father like this today?"

Gu Mingzhang shook his head vigorously, his little face tense!

"Don't complain! Only adults punish Father when he does something wrong. The teacher taught us that we should be punished for doing something wrong."

If Father didn't do anything wrong, he wouldn't be punished. Father was the one who was wrong first, not Mother.

Gu Mingzhu chimed in with her childish voice.

"Yes! Father is bad to Mother, he made her sick, he's a bad person! We only love Mother!"

Children have clear likes and dislikes. They like whoever treats them well. Their so-called father has been unkind to the siblings for a long time, and they have been estranged from him for a long time.

At this moment, the unconscious Madam Gu woke up and was helped out of the side gate of the government office by her maid. She looked haggard and disheveled, as if she had aged more than ten years in an instant.

She looked up and saw Shen Ci, who was surrounded by the Shen family and embracing her child. The resentment and unwillingness in her heart could no longer be suppressed.

Why is it that her son has become a criminal, is to be exiled, and has his life ruined, while Shen Ci's family is reunited?

"Shen Ci! It's you! It's all because of you, you vicious woman!"

She screamed, broke free from the maid's hand, and tried to rush over like a madwoman.

"You conspired with your family to frame my son! Your Shen family is abusing your power! You will all die a horrible death!"

However, before she could get close, the servants brought by the Shen family stepped forward and blocked her way. Shen's mother protected her daughter and grandson even more tightly, looking at her with icy eyes.

She has never liked this in-law.

Madam Gu punched and kicked for a long time, but she couldn't even touch the hem of Shen Ci's clothes.

She looked at her daughter-in-law, who had once been so careful and subservient to her, now surrounded by her parents and brothers, the whole family adorned with jewels. Shen Ci even looked down at her with pity.

In a daze, she seemed to see again the bright and proud eldest daughter of the Shen family from many years ago, who was still unmarried, from a prominent family. She was the high branch that the Gu family had to look up to and scheme to climb.

Once upon a time, Shen Ci was a girl she couldn't possibly reach, but years of being her mother-in-law made her forget the initial gap between them.

The Gu family was once just farmers in Gujia Village, while the Shen family had always been a powerful family in Yizhou! In the past, how could she have dared to offend a family like the Shen family?