Fu Jingchen glanced at them and couldn't help but sneer, "How are you going to deal with Cui Hailu and Pei Guangzong? They are your Pei family's most favored daughter-in-law and grandson. Don't tell me you're cold-blooded and heartless, abandoning them?"
One sentence sparked a war between Cui Hailu and her niece and the Pei family.
Pei Tai abandoned Cui Hailu and her niece without hesitation. "Zexing, divorce Cui Hailu tomorrow and make them move out so as not to upset Jingchen."
Pei Zexing was thoroughly fed up with Cui Hailu and no longer felt any affection for her as husband and wife. "Now you know, I won't let you down. Cui Hailu switched children behind our backs for her own selfish gain, causing the Pei family and Jingchen to be separated for twenty years. This is something our Pei family cannot tolerate."
"As for Yaozu, let him stay. I'll trouble you to teach him properly."
Zhao Baiping gave a perfunctory reply. Old Pei had made several solemn oaths to her, assuring her that he and Cui Hailu had no affair, but she still felt uneasy and had a lingering unease.
She truly had mixed feelings of love and hate towards her grandson, Pei Yaozu. She hated that he had an incredibly clumsy mother who loved to seduce men, and because of Cui Hailu's existence, she was unable to love her grandson as much as before.
"I will find you a new wife, a virtuous and innocent one, preferably from a respectable family of equal social standing. Then you and your husband can properly discipline Yaozu. I'm getting old and my energy is waning!"
Hearing about the fates of her biological mother and Pei Guangzong, Pei Antong felt a sense of great satisfaction.
Karma, karma...
If you think Pei Antong has given up the struggle, then you are wrong.
Although Gu Wanwan was ruthless, she still wanted to risk her life to seduce Fu Jingchen. Whether he was a platoon leader or a soldier, he was still a soldier. Right now, the only way to save her from her predicament was to marry a soldier.
Before she goes to the countryside, she needs to find an opportunity to make her move; she can't let this last chance slip by.
What happens to her biological mother and Guangzong is not within her consideration. They don't even care about her happiness, so why should she care about their life or death?
That said, the mother, who despised Old Lady Fu's behavior, was completely unaware that she was following in Old Lady Fu's footsteps, ending up isolated and penniless. Based on her understanding of the Cui family, her maternal grandparents would either remarry her or make her a mistress, selling her off for dowry money and squeezing out the last bit of value from her.
It's truly a case of "what made them rich was also what ruined them." The Cui family's dream of conquering the capital is about to be shattered.
Cui Hailu couldn't accept the fact that she was going to be divorced. Her lifelong dream was to become a wealthy lady and help the Cui family become a prominent family in Beijing. This wish had not been fulfilled for twenty years and was now cut short. "Pei Zexing, you can't do this to me. I've been your wife for twenty years, been your secret lover, and given birth to Yaozu for you. You can't abandon me just because the Fu siblings hate me. Are you even a man?"
"Guangzong isn't a member of the Pei family, but he's filial and sensible. He's been your grandson for twenty years. Don't you have any feelings for him at all? Why are you so heartless? Is blood relation really that important? My Guangzong is in no way inferior to Fu Jingchen. Can't you see that Fu Jingchen doesn't want to acknowledge you at all? Wake up! The Fu siblings would love for us to fall out!"
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