Upon hearing this, Li Shufang immediately disagreed.
"How can that be! How can you get divorced after getting married? Our generation has argued and bickered, but we still managed to live a lifetime together, didn't we?"
"Director Wang, why don't you try to persuade them?"
Li Shufang criticized Wang Shulan in dissatisfaction, but Wang Shulan patiently explained.
"Sister Shufang, this is a new society now. Those old feudal ideas are no longer acceptable! It's their life together. Jiayi said she can't go on like this. I can't just hold a knife to her, can I?"
Ding Haowen's face turned ugly. "Mom, stop talking! I'm determined to get a divorce."
Ding Haowen sneered inwardly. If Chen Jiayi insisted on a divorce, let her! She'd regret it later.
Chen Jiayi smiled and said, "Since you've agreed to the divorce, the adoption agreement must be torn up, and Dingxiang can't be registered under my name."
Ding Haowen said coldly, "You've taken care of the child for over a year, and now you just want to abandon him like that? You're so heartless."
heartless?
Chen Jiayi smiled.
"I know whether the child is mine or not, but who knows whether the child is yours?"
Ding Haowen's heart leaped into his throat!
He looked at Chen Jiayi with suspicion, but saw that Chen Jiayi's expression was calm, as if she had just said it casually.
Ding Haowen frowned, wondering if his mother had let something slip.
After resolving the divorce registration and adoption agreement, Chen Jiayi left directly with Wang Shulan.
Li Shufang could only watch helplessly as the person who took care of her left, and she angrily cursed Ding Haowen.
"Haowen, have you lost your mind? Do you even know how much Chen Jiayi earns a day, or a month, selling vegetables at her stall? You're just going to divorce her like this? Who will take care of me? Who will take care of the children?"
Hearing his mother say that, Ding Haowen became a little impatient.
"Mom, Yuzhu is very filial. She will take care of you from now on."
Ding Haowen hadn't thought about any of that. Apart from using Chen Jiayi's money during his last year of school, he hadn't used it again.
Besides, he's an intellectual, earning tens of yuan a month. Chen Jiayi selling vegetables at a stall to make money is still considered shameful and disrespectful.
Li Shufang was furious! Ding Haowen didn't sleep well yesterday, but didn't she sleep well too?
When Chen Jiayi was alive, she would get up to take care of the children whenever they cried or were hungry.
Now that Chen Jiayi wants a divorce, how can Ding Haowen, a grown man, take care of the child?
Li Shufang said earnestly, "Son, didn't you say that one of your senior researchers has returned to China and you're planning to select one or two assistants? What if your divorce affects your job?"
The thought that the hundred yuan Chen Jiayi earns each month will no longer be hers is unbearable.
Li Shufang was heartbroken and wished she could stand up and beat her stupid son to death.
“Jiayi earns about two hundred yuan a month selling vegetables! I spend tens of yuan a month on medicine, and about one hundred yuan a month on baby formula. Your salary isn’t even enough to buy my medicine, let alone support the child!”
Seeing her son's strange expression, Li Shufang rolled her eyes and continued, "If you agree to a divorce now out of spite, how will you cover the household expenses in the future?"
Ding Haowen genuinely had no idea that Chen Jiayi made so much money selling vegetables.
After hearing what his mother said, he immediately felt a little regretful.
Ding Haowen took a deep breath. "Mom, I'll go to my father-in-law's house later and talk to my parents-in-law."
Li Shufang was finally satisfied. Feeling hungry, she spoke up.
"Haowen, go to the street and buy Mom some food."
Ding Haowen's cooking was terrible, and Li Shufang found it hard to swallow.
Ding Haowen, thinking about his mother's mobility issues, readily nodded.
He went to the street and bought two steamed buns. After returning them to his mother, Ding Haowen changed the baby's diaper.
Seeing that there wasn't a single clean diaper left, Ding Haowen frowned, somewhat disgusted.
"Mom, please wash these diapers, otherwise Xiangxiang won't have any diapers to use."
Li Shufang ate her steamed bun and glanced at Ding Haowen's child with disdain.
"This child is a girl, we can just make do with her."
When Ding Haowen brought a baby home, Li Shufang objected.
When Ding Haowen said that the child was his, Li Shufang wanted to have a grandson, so she softened her heart and agreed to let him stay.
Now that Chen Jiayi is gone, Li Shufang finds it really distasteful to be asked to wash her granddaughter's diapers.
Ding Haowen was too lazy to argue with his mother. He carried the child on his back to the street to buy some fruit, and then took a car to Chen Jiayi's house.
Chen Jiayi's parents are farmers, and she also has a younger brother who is still in school.
Ding Haowen arrived at noon; Chen's parents had just returned from working in the fields and were cooking.
When Chen Xiaowei saw his son-in-law suddenly arrive, he was a little puzzled as to why his son-in-law had come back alone.
Chen Xiaowei stepped forward with a smile and took the fruit from Ding Haowen's hand.
"Haowen, why did you come back alone? Look at you, you're here, but why are you carrying fruit?"
Ding Haowen was somewhat disgusted by the smell of sweat on his father-in-law, so he quietly distanced himself and took the child off his back.
Chen Xiaowei said that, but if he really came empty-handed, the whole village would know the next day that he, the son-in-law, had come to his father-in-law's house empty-handed and had no manners at all.
Ding Haowen gave a helpless bitter smile: "Dad, Jiayi is divorcing me and she's not going to take care of the children anymore. I have no choice."
Chen Xiaowei has very traditional ideas.
In his view, once two people are married, they cannot divorce! There's nothing that justifies divorce.
Hearing his son-in-law say this, Chen Xiaowei frowned. In his eyes, his son-in-law was an intellectual, someone who would bring him a lot of face, while Chen Jiayi was nothing and was even throwing a tantrum to get a divorce.
Chen Xiaowei snorted coldly, "I think she's lost her mind! Why would she want to divorce you for no reason?"
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