Xie Xiangxiang gave a gloomy, cold laugh and refused: "No, Father, I will not divorce you! He spoke so tenderly when he proposed to me, but I had no idea that he hated me so much that he even hired someone to ruin my reputation. He is unrighteous, and I am unjust. I hope that his mistakes will end there."
Xie Zhaozhao didn't look at her, silently lowering her eyes.
Where the mistake was made, that's where the matter ends—castrate him!
Tu pleaded with Xie Xiangxiang, making muffled noises, "Please spare him, please let him go!"
"I'm old and have already lost my family. I don't want to lose my grandson too," the old lady said to Gu Boyu, weeping. "Get Yan'er out of here! If he doesn't leave, those officials in the court are like wolves and tigers. I'm afraid your third brother will be lost, and he'll lose his title. We will all be ashamed to face your father."
Gu Shaoyu said coldly, "Mother, many things in this mansion started because of you. Back then, I sent the Zhi family back to Ouyang, but you secretly kept them, which led to today's disaster!"
The old lady sobbed uncontrollably, pounding her chest as she said, "I was only doing it for their own good!"
"It was your cheap kindness that gave them hope, which allowed them to recklessly pressure my cousin Zhi Baiju and take his life!"
Gu Shaoyu said with a heavy heart, "Zhi Baiju was the only one in the Zhi family who wanted to walk the right path, but he was beaten to death by them."
He stood up, took Xie Zhaozhao's hand and left, warning the old lady again: "My father treated me well when he was alive, and I think I have repaid his kindness more than enough over the years. If the family continues to act so recklessly, the third branch will move out."
The old lady shut up.
Only after Gu Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao left did she angrily say, "What kind of life do I have? I raised such a good son, and he scolds and yells at his old mother all the time."
Upon hearing this, Gu Shaoyu calmly said to Nanxing, "Go and tell Lord Meng that Gu Chengyan's crimes are heinous and he is sentenced to castration!"
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