Chapter 554 Reality is always crueler than expected
Cao Yun felt her blood rush to her head, her shoulders trembling. She clenched her fists. "I'm going to find her!"
"Mom!" Qiao Ying grabbed her arm. "No! You can't divorce Dad!"
Cao Yun stared at her stiffly. "What did you say?"
Are you planning to divorce my dad?
Cao Yun took a deep breath. Now that things had come to this, she didn't want to hide it from Qiao Ying anymore. "Yes, he did something like this, so I'm definitely going to divorce him."
Moreover, she had already handed the USB drive over to her superiors. Once the results came out, Qiao Hong would definitely be unable to recover. Before that, she was determined to divorce Qiao Hong.
The children are all in school, and she needs to think about their future.
To everyone's surprise, Qiao Ying became very agitated upon hearing Cao Yun's words. "No, no! Mom! You can't divorce Dad. If you divorce him, it'll be telling everyone that Dad cheated on me. If my classmates and people at school find out, I'll have no face to live with!"
A hint of sadness flashed across Cao Yun's eyes; she had never wanted things to turn out this way.
But she couldn't sacrifice her entire life for the present, especially since she had a son and a daughter, and she couldn't let them be dragged down by Qiao Hong.
Cao Yun was filled with mixed emotions, but she still comforted Qiao Ying and explained, "Yingying, I know this has hurt you a lot, but even if I divorce your father, I will not abandon you. I will definitely take good care of you."
"I don't want to hear any of this!" Qiao Ying shouted in despair. "No matter what, you can't divorce my father. I don't want people to gossip about me, say that my father cheated on me, and laugh at me for the rest of my life because of your divorce!"
When Qiao Hong drove his car toward her, Qiao Ying was truly heartbroken. She even thought that she would never acknowledge Qiao Hong as her father again in this lifetime.
But more than this, she fears living her whole life amidst the criticism of others.
Cao Yun was well aware of her thoughts, but her marriage with Qiao Hong was truly beyond repair.
“Yingying, listen to me. From the moment I found out your father was having an affair, we knew we had to get a divorce. And there’s no way I could forgive him for what he did to you for that woman.”
Qiao Ying covered her ears. "I said! I don't agree to your divorce! You're just as selfish as my dad, only thinking about yourself and never caring about my feelings. Let me tell you, if you get divorced, I won't live either. Rather than being laughed at for the rest of my life, I'd rather die!"
“Yingying…”
"Get out! I don't want to see you! Get out!"
Qiao Ying's lack of understanding left Cao Yun feeling exhausted and disheartened.
She even had some doubts about whether everything she had done was worth it.
The phone in Cao Yun's bag rang. Seeing the number on the screen, Cao Yun quickly answered, "Director Chen."
"Xiao Cao, I investigated the matter you told me about last time. I also looked at the contents of the USB drive. Although there are indeed loopholes, it's probably unlikely that we can convict you based solely on these things."
Cao Yun's heart sank to the bottom in an instant. She gripped her phone tightly and remained silent for a while before saying, "I understand. Thank you, Director Chen."
Cao Yun approached this matter with a sense of wishful thinking, believing that if fate were fair, it would surely grant him the opportunity.
But reality is always much crueler than she expected.
I had just hung up the phone when another call came in.
It was Cao Yun's son calling. Cao Yun quickly composed himself, took a few deep breaths, and forced a smile. "Xiao Xi."
Josie's voice came through the phone, "Mom, you haven't transferred any living expenses to me for days. Have you forgotten that you even have a son like me?"
"No, no, I've just been too busy these past few days. You know how busy Mom is; when she's busy, she works non-stop. Mom didn't mean it."
Josie said with dissatisfaction, "What about my dad? I can't get through to him on the phone. Is he busy too?"
Cao Yun tried hard to maintain his composure. "His company has a very important project recently. I'll tell him in a bit and transfer the money to you."
"Then hurry up, I haven't bought any clothes in a long time, and I haven't eaten out with my classmates. They're all laughing at me, saying my family must have gone bankrupt."
"Okay, Mom understands. Take good care of yourself at school..."
Before Cao Yun could finish speaking, Qiao Xi had already hung up the phone.
Cao Yun sat weakly in the chair, feeling utterly exhausted.
All the pressure came one after another; every person and every thing made her feel suffocated.
She finally realized how foolish and ridiculous it was for her to want a divorce from Qiao Hong.
A nurse approached Cao Yun and asked, "Are you Qiao Hong's wife?"
Cao Yun raised her head blankly. She wanted to tell the nurse that she didn't know Qiao Hong and that he wasn't her wife at all.
But when she opened her mouth, she forced out two words, "It's me."
The nurse said, "Hey, Qiao Hong's medical bills haven't been paid yet. Could you go and pay them? Oh, and the lady who was brought in with him—I haven't been able to contact her family. If you know her, could you please pay her bills as well?"
Cao Yun smiled sarcastically to himself.
Her husband betrayed her, hurt her daughter, and after getting into an accident with his mistress, he still expects her, the wife, to pay their medical bills.
It's both ridiculous and pathetic.
Although Qiao Hong was not in mortal danger, he was still unconscious due to excessive shock and inhaling too much smoke.
Cao Yun stood outside the ward, looking at Qiao Hong lying on the bed through the glass window.
She had never thought of herself as a cold-blooded and heartless person before, but at this moment, she wished that Qiao Hong could just sleep like this forever and never open his eyes again.
There was another person lying in the ward, and her condition seemed more serious than Qiao Hong's.
Her face was wrapped in gauze, and she was unconscious, but even so, Cao Yun could still recognize her as Xu Meimei.
Two days later, Qiao Hong woke up.
Xu Meimei, who was originally in the same ward as him, was moved to the ward next door.
It was Cao Yun who proposed it.
On the day Qiao Hong had the accident, all of Qiao's family members came, unaware of Qiao Hong's scandalous affairs.
Second Uncle seemed to be there to watch the show. Although he expressed sympathy for Qiao Hong's plight and comforted Cao Yun, Cao Yun could tell that there was gloating in his words.
In order to maintain a semblance of peace, Cao Yun had to continue playing the role of Qiao Hong's virtuous wife, telling them that she would take good care of Qiao Hong.
Cao Yun felt disgusted by Xu Meimei and didn't want to be in the same place as her, so she asked the doctor to change her ward.
When Qiao Hong woke up, he opened his eyes and saw Cao Yun wiping the cabinet next to his bed.
Having narrowly escaped death, he was incredibly excited to see Cao Yun, "Xiao Yun..."
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