Chapter 167 Why should I compromise?
Fang Wei pursed her red lips.
"grandfather……"
"Huihui, you don't have to say anything. Grandpa knows it's definitely not your fault. It's definitely the fault of that ignorant bastard in my family!" Whenever Grandpa Gu mentioned his grandson Gu Yanchen, he got so angry that his teeth itched.
Damn it, does he know how much effort went into making this marriage happen, and yet he ended up like this?
Fang Wei picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.
In fact, she was not very good at tasting tea, but her grandmother always used to make a pot of tea in her spare time. The tea was not some famous tea, but the tea that her grandmother picked on the mountain and made herself. To be honest, it tasted bitter and unpalatable, and neither she nor Lin Yuan liked to drink it.
It was also because the memory of her grandmother's tea was so deep that later on she and Lin Yuan no longer liked drinking tea, always feeling that tea was bitter.
They both didn't understand why grandma insisted on drinking such a bitter thing.
Plain water is better than bitter tea.
In her memory, after showing those things to people, my grandmother would sit under the plum tree, holding a teapot that could be held in one hand, rocking on a recliner and drinking tea. However, there were emotions in her eyes that she could not understand when she was a child but understood now.
Sad.
She heard it from the old people in the village.
My grandmother was an outsider. When she was young, she was very beautiful and well-educated, like a lady from a wealthy family. It was only after my grandfather died that she started to tell fortunes for others in order to make a living.
They said that when grandpa was still alive, grandma was very well taken care of. In that era, grandma never had to do housework and the clothes she wore were always clean and had no patches. All the patched clothes were on grandpa. People in the village often used this incident to make fun of grandpa, saying that he was dominated by his wife and had no masculinity at all.
Grandpa just touched his head and smiled, then said: "It's good to be henpecked. My wife Yuanxiu is very good. I like her being henpecked."
Those men cursed my grandfather for being a useless man.
A man is still controlled by a woman.
In reality, they wanted to sow discord between grandpa and grandma. They wanted grandpa to come home and beat his wife like they did. When grandpa didn't do as they wished, they formed a group to despise him.
They don't know much about grandpa.
Most of the time, I have heard it from my grandmother and elderly neighbors.
From their words, we can imagine that grandpa is an honest and decent man. He works diligently and silently to maintain his family. Because grandpa is an orphan, he picked up a grandmother from outside and formed their family. He carefully protects the grandmother who gave him a home.
Later, grandma also learned from grandpa and carefully protected their home. Even though her son was a retribution in this life, she still endured it silently, using her few skills to support the family and earn a meager money to support herself and Lin Yuan.
The three of them were looking at the stars in the yard.
She said to Lin Yuan: "Grandma, we will make a lot of money in the future and bring you to a big city to live. We will let you live in a big house, eat the best food, and ride in a car..."
Grandma stroked their heads and smiled, "Grandma is not going anywhere."
They both didn't understand: "Why?"
"Grandma's family is here, and she has to stay with him."
They fantasize about the love between grandma and grandpa, so when grandma is gone in the future, they also hope that they can find someone who will care for grandma like grandpa did. If they can't find it, they will learn from grandma and support each other through their bumpy lives.
Grandma once said that tea tastes bitter at first but has a sweet aftertaste, just like her life with grandpa. It was hard when they started a family, but there was a touch of sweetness in the process. Later, grandma learned from grandpa to carry the burden of a family. She savors that sweetness, which was the sweetness that grandpa brought her.
However, she never found a man like her grandfather. She looked at the tea in her hand. The tea was called Piaoxue. It didn’t taste bitter, but it didn’t have a sweet aftertaste.
"Grandpa... Gu Yanchen is not my beloved. There is no love between him and me. I can continue to maintain this marriage not because I still have expectations for him." She paused, "I have no expectations for him. I just want to protect my family. My family is not him."
The old man listened to this and sighed for a long time, "It is Yanchen who is not worthy of you."
Fang Wei held the teacup and said, "Grandpa, you actually understand. You have been through a lot. Lin Yuan and I can't hide anything from you. I stayed in the Gu family just to protect Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan is my only family member. One day, when Lin Yuan is really happy, I will leave."
"I will divorce Gu Yanchen, and I will live my life with Manman. I may meet someone I like in the rest of my life, but that person will not be Gu Yanchen."
The old man didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Yanchen, he..."
"Grandpa, we are all adults. Adults need to be responsible for their actions. We can't just cover it up by saying that you were still young. I know you want to say that it was those things that happened when you were a child that caused Gu Yanchen to have a bad personality, but what does that have to do with me?"
Fang Wei's eyes were clear, "Why should I spend the rest of my life's happiness to pay for Gu Yanchen's childhood?"
"Everyone goes through some things in childhood that leave psychological trauma, but this is not a reason for him to imprison me, Grandpa, do you know? In just over a month, I was like a walking corpse, my soul and my body were being trampled on, trampled on without any dignity!
After what I've been through, you're using his childhood experiences to persuade me to give him a chance. Don't you think that's cruel to me? What about me? Who will heal my trauma? Why should I compromise myself to get along with someone I hate to the core? Why should I make this compromise? "
"Hui Hui..."
"grandfather……"
Fang Hui interrupted the old man and smiled apologetically, "I will withdraw the lawsuit against Gu Yanchen, but please take him away from here."
She stood up and bowed 90 degrees towards the old man, "Please."
The old man looked at the girl who bowed to him, and suddenly he was speechless. He knew that the marriage between Gu Yanchen and Fang Hui had come to an end.
After a while, he sighed: "Okay, Grandpa agrees to your request."
"Thank you, Grandpa." Fang Hui looked at the loving care in the old man's eyes and thanked him sincerely. She could feel that the old man's love for her was real.
"Hui Hui."
The old man looked at the girl and asked, "Are you happy?"
Fang Hui understood what the old man asked, and she nodded: "Happy."
"That's good. Grandpa hopes you'll be happy." The old man stood up and touched Fang Wei's head with his hand. "No matter what happens between you and Gu Yanchen in the end, you are still grandpa's granddaughter."
"If you encounter problems that cannot be solved, give me a call and I will help you solve them." After a pause, the old man asked with a hint of request in his eyes, "Can I meet...Manman?"