Chapter 103
The agreed meeting place was in a cafe. When Jiang Zhinian and Teacher Li walked in, Wen Heqing was already sitting in the booth. She was wearing a pair of sunglasses and looked very bad.
Teacher Li pulled Jiang Zhinian to sit opposite him with a cold expression, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.
Wen Heqing glanced at Jiang Zhinian, then took out her phone and handed it to Teacher Li.
"It contains all our chat records, you can take a look at it."
Teacher Li glanced at the phone, took it reluctantly, hesitated for a moment, and opened the chat dialog box.
"I'm divorced and have no children."
"My ex-wife has a low libido, and our married life is not harmonious."
"I admit that we haven't divorced yet. I lied to you because I loved you too much. It wasn't intentional. My ex-wife and I haven't had sex for many years. We are de facto divorced."
"We'll sign the divorce papers once our child gets into college. She's already tacitly allowed me to develop other relationships."
"Just focus on giving birth to the baby and don't worry about anything else."
Tears blurred her eyes. She recognized these cold words, yet seemed unfamiliar with them. After clicking on the other person's profile picture and confirming the WeChat account, Teacher Li covered her mouth.
Jiang Zhinian handed over a tissue, and Teacher Li turned her head and wiped her tears.
She calmed herself down and cleared her throat. "So you asked me out today just to show me this?"
"I hope you can clarify for me that I am not the mistress who intentionally destroyed your family." She has been scolded by angry netizens online. Although she also posted screenshots of the video to clarify, no one is willing to believe her words and they all say it is photoshopped.
Her past negative information was also dug up and mixed together, and the criticism became more and more fierce.
In this incident, it went from a scumbag man's cheating to a battle between two women, with countless netizens expressing their emotions.
Teacher Li was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I can clarify this for you, but I have a request."
"you say."
"First, return all the money to me without missing a cent."
Wen Heqing looked embarrassed. "I can return all the money he transferred to me through WeChat later, but I only received a portion of the rewards he gave me through the platform before. However, I can cooperate with you in filing a complaint with the platform."
Teacher Li nodded, glanced at Jiang Zhinian, and said with determination, "Second, I want all the evidence you have of his infidelity, from the chats on the platform, the rewards, to the subsequent hotel check-in records. Give it all to me."
Wen Heqing was a little surprised: "Why do you want these?"
"Don't worry about it. Just give it all to me. Thirdly, and most importantly, don't fall out with him now. I need your cooperation."
Wen Heqing became more and more confused as she listened: "How can I cooperate with you?"
"Let's add each other and I'll tell you later."
After Wen Heqing left, Teacher Li completely relaxed and stared blankly at the coffee cup in his hand.
"Teacher Xiao Jiang, you're right. I was just deceiving myself when I caused trouble for that woman before."
She wanted to prove that it was all the mistress's fault, that it was all her deliberate seduction, and that her husband might just be confused for a moment, and that when he came to his senses, he would definitely return to the family.
But after listening to Jiang Zhinian's persuasion, she finally came to her senses. Even if there was no mistress, there would be a fourth or fifth mistress. A man would never cheat only once, it was just that one of those times was discovered by you.
Later, she thought about enduring it for the sake of her child. She was already at this age and it was impossible for her to remarry. If her daughter followed her in the future, she didn't know how many people would look down on her.
But Jiang Zhinian advised her to have a good talk with her daughter. Girls of this age are sensitive and hiding everything from them will actually be counterproductive. Moreover, girls of their age already have their own ideas and opinions.
She listened to the advice and found an opportunity to talk to her daughter. Although she didn't say it explicitly, her daughter was smart and pointed it out directly.
"Mom, I support your divorce. Don't worry, I don't think my parents' divorce will cause me any harm. It's the constant quarreling between you two that makes me feel annoyed."
For the first time, Teacher Li discovered that the little girl she had held in her arms and cared for had grown up and was able to help her mother with advice.
"Mom, tell that anchorwoman to stop arguing with my dad first, lest he fight you for my custody. Let her use the child to appease my dad. He's always regretted that I'm not a son, so let him think that woman can give him a son."
With her daughter's reminder, she finally realized that what she had to do now was to try her best to preserve the property and then fight for the custody of the child. Nothing else mattered.
"Teacher Xiao Jiang, thank you. Thanks to your reminder, I can think clearly. Otherwise... maybe I would be trapped in self-deception for the rest of my life."
Jiang Zhinian shook his head: "Teacher Li, the only one who can save yourself is yourself. No matter how much others persuade you, it will be useless. You have to figure it out yourself."
It’s useless to talk to someone who doesn’t want to wake up.
If it were the Jiang Zhinian of the past, he might have worried that he could not convince others and would get into trouble instead, so he would have chosen to stand by and watch. However, after going through these things, he has grown.
She then realized that when others are struggling in the mud, if you can lend a hand to pull them out, why not do it?
Therefore, she chose to muster up the courage to analyze the matter carefully with Teacher Li and advise her to learn to communicate with her children.
Teacher Li sighed: "It's so hard to be a woman. If there is a next life, I don't want to be a woman anymore. It's so nice to be a man. It's so free and easy."
She looked at Jiang Zhinian. Perhaps the result of several days of painful hesitation had finally come to fruition. She regained her usual gossipy energy: "You know about Teacher Qian, right?"
Jiang Zhinian thought of that gentle woman and nodded: "Yeah."
"Her husband, I knew he was a bad guy right away. We had agreed to adopt the child, but a few days ago, his mother brought over a relative's child and said she wanted him to be their son."
Teacher Li grew angrier as he spoke. "That little boy is already seven or eight years old and in elementary school. His parents are poor and lazy, and his mother-in-law even said it's better to adopt a relative's child than an orphan. She's treating people like fools. There's no way we can raise that little boy. He'll probably have to look for his biological parents whenever something happens. If we really try to adopt him, he'll just be sucked dry by that whole family and work for nothing for the rest of his life."
Jiang Zhinian directly pointed out the problem: "This kind of adoption is not legal, right?"
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