When Lao Li's parents heard about it, they were so angry that they almost had a heart attack.
"If my son really didn't care about anything, where did she get food and clothes from? Before she moved to the city, she had a job in town, but with her salary, apart from food and drink, could she afford to buy clothes worth hundreds of dollars? Bags and cosmetics, could she afford them?
How did she get the house in the city? Didn't she spend my son's money? Did she pay back a cent of those IOUs?
After moving to the city, she stopped working, and she always used the child as an excuse. Why? The child goes to school every day, so does she need to be a 24-hour babysitter? She said she was doing it for the child, but look at what she has done to my eldest grandson.
My grandson is so young, he can't grow because of the school bag, but she still enrolls him in so many cram schools. I asked, where does the money for these expensive cram schools come from? If she doesn't take care of my son, she goes out to eat with this person and go shopping with that person every day, where does the money come from?
"He spent my son's hard-earned money and looked down on him for being useless and unable to provide others with a better life. Please judge for yourself, what kind of thing is this? Is there anyone like this?"
The old couple did not support divorce at first, and wanted to persuade their son to take a step back and be patient for the sake of the children. Besides, divorce was not a thing in their era. Which couple lived without friction and unhappiness? They just made do with it.
But after learning the doctor's diagnosis from their son - although they didn't understand what "depression" was, they only understood one thing: if this disease was not taken seriously, the consequences would be very serious.
The key is that the root of the disease lies in the child's mother.
The balance in the old couple's hearts suddenly tilted.
After hearing about their daughter-in-law's slanderous words against their son regardless of the facts, the old couple completely supported their son's divorce.
While she was still at her parents' home, arrogantly ignoring Old Li, she received a notice from the court.
As the negotiation failed, Mr. Li filed for divorce.
She was in disbelief and went to the court in a huff.
During the pre-trial mediation, she wanted the house, the money, and the child.
A house and money are the guarantee of current life, and a son is the guarantee of future life.
In addition, she felt that this was the son she had carefully nurtured for more than ten years, and she was hoping that her child would be admitted to a top domestic university to fulfill her dream and make her proud.
Mr. Li doesn't care about money and house, but he will never give her custody of the child.
The two were arguing, so the mediator suggested asking the child for his opinion.
Li Yu has had Lao Li accompany him and comfort him these days, and it seems that he has recovered a lot.
Relatives are allowed to attend the pre-trial mediation, so the elders on both sides and the couple’s brothers or sisters all came to support them.
Li Yu also came and asked to attend the class on his own initiative.
When Li Yu first proposed this, Old Li didn't want him to come, fearing that his condition would worsen after he saw that woman. But Li Yu insisted, and Old Li, concerned about the child's emotions, had to agree.
The mediator had just asked Li Yu for her opinion, and before the child even opened his mouth, she started crying and played the "mother and child are connected" family card.
Seeing that Li Yu had no reaction, he wanted to reach out and pull.
Old Li subconsciously rushed over to pull Li Yu and the chair over and protected him tightly.
The relatives on both sides started a new round of quarrels over this.
The mediator tried to persuade them no matter what, but Li Yu's words made everyone speechless in an instant, and even their movements stopped.
Li Yu stood beside Lao Li, looking at her on the other side of the long table, with complicated emotions in his eyes: "I choose my dad, and you don't want the money and the house, because you cheated on me, I saw it with my own eyes."
Amid silent shock, Li Yu accurately described the time, place, the man's appearance, and what he was wearing at the time.
Li Yu said: "You didn't pick me up from cram school that day and let me go home by myself. I was walking on the street and passed by a bookstore. I went in to read for a while, and then I saw you and him coming out of the hotel across the street from the window of the bookstore, and you also..."
Li Yu couldn't continue.
Old Li reached out his long arms, hugged his son, and pressed him into his arms. Then he felt his clothes on his chest get wet, and heard his crying voice: "Dad, I'm sorry..."
Li Yu didn't want to say it at first, he just wanted to keep this matter to himself.
He had a feeling that his parents would most likely become strangers after their divorce, but after all, they were once a family. Even if he was a child, he wanted to be respectable, not to mention that he was holding his father in his arms at the moment.
But she went too far, really too far.
How could she want everything and leave nothing for his father? Last time, Lao Li left his job without asking for leave and could not be contacted for a long time. He had been fired from the engineering team. When he secretly called someone to introduce a job, Li Yu heard it.
Once this incident happened, she was definitely the party at fault. In order not to affect her future remarriage, her parents firmly opposed the court hearing and demanded that the matter be resolved privately.
If the incident got out, she would be nailed to the pillar of shame. What would she do for the rest of her life? She felt guilty and couldn't ask for too much.
Finally, after mediation, the house and the child were given to Lao Li, and the money in the bank account was divided equally between the two.
After getting the divorce certificate, she moved her things out of the house, and both father and son felt the same sense of relief.
Looking at this house again, it seems that the space has become larger, the windows have become brighter, and the haze has disappeared.
But Li Yu didn't want to go back to school. After the love letter incident last time, he felt resistant.
He really could never forget the feeling of having his self-esteem trampled on by the people closest to him.
Lao Li took him to see a psychologist again.
However, this kind of wound can only heal slowly by himself. Considering the child's psychological endurance, the doctor suggested that Lao Li try to change his environment if he is able.
So Lao Li asked someone to use his connections to get Li Yu transferred to a school. It was an experimental middle school closer to home, which was ranked many places lower than the No. 1 Middle School in the city, but much better than the schools in the town.
Originally, Mr. Li wanted to sell the house and take the child back to the village, and let the child go to school in town. He didn't care whether the child's grades were good or bad. As long as the child could be happy in the future, he would be satisfied.
His friend persuaded him, “It’s better to keep the house. All the old neighborhoods in Shinan have been demolished. If this place is also demolished and rebuilt, it will be too late for you to regret it.”
If you really think it's unlucky, just change all the decoration in the house. You do this yourself, so it won't be difficult to do a simple decoration.
Besides, you can be indifferent to your child's grades, but what about the child himself? Nowadays, academic qualifications are considered when looking for a job, let alone in the future? If you really care about your child, you should stay in the city."
The love letter is based on a real case.
I heard from a friend that her relative’s child, who was in the third year of junior high school, received a love letter from a girl and was discovered by his mother.
It happened that the child's grades dropped during that period, and the mother blamed it on premature love.
I went to the school and found the girl's class, and scolded her in front of everyone. I said she was a bad student and had no sense of shame. A little girl who didn't care about studying and was only interested in love affairs all day long, how shameless...
After the girl finished her work, she went to her son's class, dragged him to the corridor, and scolded him for the entire break...
I felt so suffocated when I heard this! Fortunately, these two children have strong mental qualities, otherwise, the consequences would be unpredictable...
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