After listening to Mother Yao's repeated words for half an hour, Yao Xiujuan's face turned unhappy and her tone became aggressive. "Mom, what's the point of you asking these questions now? No matter what the reason is, He Zhigang can't hit Xiuhe!"

"Anyway, this matter can't just be let go like this!"

"Xiu He, why don't you and He Zhigang get a divorce?"

Yao's mother was shocked when she heard this. She immediately stood up and loudly objected, "What? Divorce? No, no! How can Xiuhe go out after the divorce?"

Yao Xiujuan exploded, her voice rising. "Mom, why are you still thinking about whether it's embarrassing or not? Didn't you see the injuries on Xiuhe's body? Do you know how He Zhigang beat Xiuhe when my sister-in-law and I went to her house today?"

As she spoke, Yao Xiujuan lifted up Yao Xiuhe's sleeve and said, "Mom, please take a good look and see if there is any good spot on Xiuhe's arm."

"Look at Xiuhe's spirits now. She's only 25 or 26, and she's already like this! Mom, how can face be more important than life? If Xiuhe continues to live like this with He Zhigang, she won't be able to survive!"

By the end of her speech, Yao Xiujuan's voice was trembling, and the tears in her eyes could no longer be held back. She looked at her second sister with a dull look, and her heart ached. Her second sister, she used to be such a lively person, but now? It seemed as if she had lost all her life.

Yao's mother opened her mouth and murmured, "But, but divorce..."

Today was the only day Yao Xiujuan contradicted her mother. "What's wrong with divorce? People nowadays don't think the same way they used to. If you're unhappy, you can divorce and pursue your own happiness!"

"Besides, Brother Tian always says that when a man hits a woman, there are only zero times and countless times. There's no such thing as a genuine change of heart! In the minds of those men who beat women, if a woman forgives him once, as long as she plays her sympathy after the beating and offers a certificate, most women will forgive him again for the sake of their children!"

Liu Jiali didn't want to interrupt, but after hearing what Yao Xiujuan said, she nodded in agreement, "Mom, my elder sister is right. Only incompetent men would beat their wives. A truly capable man would never take his anger out on his wife no matter what the reason!"

"Just like my eldest brother-in-law, he's so awesome, but you see, he never gets angry with my eldest sister!"

Yao's mother opened her mouth, "But..."

Yao's father stood up at this time, turned around to look at the few people, and said firmly, "Divorce! Xiuhe, you and He Zhigang divorce!"

Yao's mother exclaimed, "Xiujuan's father! Xiuhe is divorced, what will happen to the two children? What if He Zhigang remarries in the future? Will the stepmother be able to treat the two children well?"

Father Yao was silent for a moment and then said, "Then take them away. We're both not yet fifty, so we can still work for at least another ten years. By then, we can help out a little more and we can eventually raise the two children!"

Yao's mother looked at Yao's father in shock. "Is it enough for us to agree? Have you ever thought about the friendly couple?"

After she finished speaking, Yao's mother looked at Liu Jiali with an apologetic look on her face.

Father Yao also reacted. He looked at Liu Jiali guiltily and said, "Friendly wife, your second sister is like this. As parents, we can't just ignore her. But, don't worry, we are only helping temporarily. When your second sister recovers, we will..."

Liu Jiali was stunned for a moment, then reacted and quickly waved her hand to interrupt Father Yao. "Dad, Mom, you don't have to worry about Youjun and me. We don't have many opportunities to go home. If my second sister gets divorced, let her and the children live at home. With them accompanying you, Youjun and I can feel more at ease."

Father Yao nodded, then looked at Yao Xiuhe, who had been in a daze, and asked, "Xiuhe, what do you think?"

Yao Xiuhe slowly raised her head, her dull eyes swept across everyone's faces one by one, and finally lowered her head again, without saying a word.

Seeing this, Yao Xiujuan became anxious. She stepped forward and grabbed Yao Xiuhe's hand, shouting anxiously, "Xiuhe, can you cheer up? Think about Xiaojun, think about Xiaobin..."

A child is a mother's biggest weakness. Yao Xiuhe, whose eyes were originally dull, immediately came to her senses when she heard the two people's names. She grabbed Yao Xiujuan's hand and cried.

"Sister, I want Xiaojun and Xiaobin... I can't leave them at the He family..."

Yao Xiujuan quickly nodded and assured, "Okay, okay, okay, don't worry, the child will definitely be given to you. At this time, the friendly forces have already taken Brother Dashan and a few others to the He family to pick up the child..."

"That's good, that's good..."

Yao Xiuhe exhaled, slowly released her hands from Yao Xiujuan, covered her face with her hands, and sobbed softly. After a while, she put her hands down, wiped the tears from her face, and began to tell her story.

"He Zhigang has changed. He's changed since the separation. It wasn't obvious at first, so I thought he was just not used to the separation..."

"But after Youjun got married, he changed noticeably. He became unsatisfied, vain, and competitive..."

"The first time I was hit was when Xiu Li got engaged..."

"When he saw that his brother-in-law had given Xiu Li so much as a betrothal gift, he became upset. He drank a little at home that day and went crazy when he got home. He, he pushed me to the ground and beat me!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, okay?

Liu Jiali asked in disbelief, "Xiu Li has been married for more than two years. Second sister, are you saying that your second brother-in-law, no, He Zhigang, has been beating you for more than two years?"

"Just because my brother-in-law gave Xiu Li a large betrothal gift?"

Yao Xiuhe nodded gently, "Yes, there is that reason. Mainly, it's because he feels that he is incompetent and is outdone by his eldest brother-in-law and his younger brother-in-law. So he gets angry and says that he is unlucky and not as lucky as his eldest brother-in-law and his younger brother-in-law..."

Yao Xiujuan's face turned pale, and she slammed her hand on the table. She spat and said, "You have no ability, but you don't want to make yourself better, and you hate others' excellence? What is this? It's really unreasonable..."

Liu Jiali replied calmly, "I have low self-esteem, so I think other people's success is just luck, and I never look for faults in myself."

"Because of his low self-esteem, he told himself deep down that other people's success was due to luck, not hard work, and that his own failures were all due to so-called lack of luck."

"I guess he brainwashes himself like this because he doesn't dare to face the excellence of others!"

Yao's father then added, "It's said that capable people understand the principle of change and never feel unlucky because of others' excellence. They just feel that they are not good enough. Incompetent people think the exact opposite..."

Everyone fell silent after hearing this, and they all thought to themselves that what Yao's father said was true...