The Gu and Cui families are old friends. They had arranged a marriage long ago and then got married. However, Sui Yuan said she couldn't bear to part with her sister. So, after Gu Meizhi got married, she also prepared a room for Sui Yuan at home so that she could go there anytime.
“That’s a heartless ingrate.” Gu Meizhi glared at Cui Zhanyi. “Seeing that I’m doing quite well after getting married, while she went on several blind dates and none of them were as good as my husband, she got an idea and seduced him…”
Cui Zhanyi looked somewhat embarrassed.
"I caught them in bed together," Gu Meizhi said, her face still filled with hatred.
Le Yao nodded. That was true. In that era, there was absolutely zero tolerance for promiscuity between men and women.
"But that bitch said she's pregnant, and that she doesn't ask for any title, she just wants to have the man for her two days a week..."
Le Yao was also shocked; that woman really dared to say that.
“I wanted a divorce back then, why should I be betrayed?” Gu Meizhi wiped away her tears. “But my in-laws and he all knelt down and begged me, and later my seriously ill parents also begged me… But they said I hadn’t gotten pregnant in two years of marriage, and that the child in that bitch’s belly was innocent…”
Cui Zhanyi reached out to take Gu Meizhi's hand, but she shook him off.
“I compromised later.” Gu Meizhi smiled at Le Yao. “But, because she was pregnant out of wedlock, it would be very serious if people found out. So, before her pregnancy became noticeable, we went to Sichuan Province together, but told everyone we went to southern Jiangxi. There, Cui Na was born. Although it was a daughter, they were very happy. Once it blossoms, it will bear fruit, right?”
“Meizhi, all of that is in the past…” Cui Zhanyi said cautiously, “We were too young back then…”
“Hehe.” Gu Meizhi ignored the old man and continued, “Because of Cui Na, Sui Yuan felt that she couldn’t let it go like this, so she proposed that we get a divorce, and this man agreed, but…” She suddenly laughed, “Maybe God also thought they were too disgusting, because on the way back from Sichuan Province, that woman actually met Shen Guozhong on the train.”
Le Yao nodded.
"Back then, the social environment was starting to improve... Shen Guozhong was a young master from the capital..."
"I must say, Sui Yuan is truly capable. She's already had a child, yet she managed to keep it a secret from Shen Guozhong and even made that playboy infatuated with her. Now that she has the Shen family's treasures, how could she possibly be interested in Cui Zhanyi? But how could I let her succeed so easily? So, I demanded that she keep quiet, otherwise, I would expose her..."
"I don't know how she talked to Shen Guozhong, but he actually gave her ten 'big yellow croakers' (a type of Chinese liquor). Then, Cui Na stayed, while she went to Beijing with Shen Guozhong under the alias Yuan Yuan. Yuan is our mother's surname." Gu Meizhi sighed again. "Just like that, she became a wealthy woman, and we used the money to take advantage of the reform and opening up policy and started contracting coal mines. Coal mining was so profitable that we couldn't stop from doing it. Later, we even got silver and gold mines..."
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