Ye Xinning turned around and looked at Shen Lin, her eyes asking him what he was going to do.
"Where are you going?" Shen Lin asked, his tone as cold as ever.
Ye Xinning looked into his eyes. "The people here don't like me, so what am I doing here?"
Just as Ye Xinning finished speaking, the old lady rushed over aggressively and grabbed Shen Lin.
"If she wants to leave, just let her go. Why are you holding her back?"
Looking at the scene before him, Ye Xinning felt an overwhelming sense of irony.
"Did you hear that? Grandma told you to let me go."
Who are you going to see?
Shen Lin seemed not to have heard her words, and then asked this question.
"I told you it's none of your business where I go. You don't even care about me anymore, so why are you asking so many questions?"
When Ye Xinning said this, there was a hint of resentment in her voice. Just how much patience did she have to make Shen Lin think she had no temper at all?
Since arriving at the Shen family from Jiang'an, she had been suppressing her anger.
She believed him when he said the child wasn't his, and even when Jiang An had been living in the Shen family's house for so long, she went with him to the Ming Mansion to give up her place for Jiang An. But these people only took advantage of her kindness and became more and more arrogant and unruly.
She respected Grandma Shen Lin as an elder, but that didn't mean she would tolerate her endlessly.
Shen Lin had no idea what Ye Xinning was thinking. He grabbed Ye Xinning's hand and questioned her, "Are you going to find the father of your child, or someone else, or are you going to find Huo Yanzhi?"
Upon hearing Shen Lin's words, Ye Xinning's eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at him. "Do you know what you're saying?"
He actually said such a thing in front of so many people.
Shen Lin was furious. Her continued avoidance of the issue meant that she had hit the nail on the head.
"Ye Xinning, I'll ask you one more time, who exactly is that person!"
"You're insane." Ye Xinning's eyes flashed with coldness.
At this moment, she felt nothing but utter disappointment towards Shen Lin. She shook off Shen Lin's hand and turned to leave, but before she could take a few steps, she was stopped by an old woman who suddenly rushed up to her.
The old lady glared at her angrily, "What did Shen Lin just say about you being pregnant? You have a child?"
“I am not pregnant, so Grandma doesn’t need to worry that I will take away Jiang’an’s preferential treatment. But I did have a child once, and that child was cruelly killed while still in my womb.”
The old lady didn't care about her losing her child at all. What the old lady cared about now was, "Shen Lin just said that your child's father isn't Shen Lin's?"
One by one, their family members came up to question them. Ye Xinning thought of her past with Shen Lin and found it all laughable. It was clearly Shen Lin.
But none of them would believe it. Should we say she was sad, or that they were excessively foolish and prejudiced?
"Think what you want, but you won't believe my explanation anyway. Grandma, please let me go."
All she wanted to do now was leave. If she looked at Shen Lin or Shen Lin's grandmother even once more, she would feel like a joke.
Ye Xinning thought this, but the old lady still wouldn't let her leave. "You think you can leave so easily? I'll ask you, how many men have you been with before? You even got pregnant with someone else's child. You were already a used-up woman when you married Chen Lin, and you still have the nerve to cling to Chen Lin all these years?"
Upon hearing the words "withered flowers and broken willows," Ye Xinning, no matter how much she tried to restrain herself, no longer wanted to be polite to the old lady.
A sarcastic smile played on her lips. "It's ridiculous. Anyone who knows this is in the 21st century, but anyone who doesn't would think we're living in ancient times. Don't tell me I've never had any relationship with anyone. Even if I had, Grandma, you have no right to criticize me. What do you mean I'm not clean? How clean is your grandson? Let's say the child in Jiang An's belly is really his. Then what am I if I'm not clean? What idiom would Grandma use to describe him?"
Ye Xinning suddenly typed something, and the old lady was so angry that she couldn't speak, but the strength in her hands remained the same, and she clenched her fists tightly.
Ye Xinning had no way to leave even if she wanted to.
"I don't know what sins you committed that made our Shen family marry such a shameless woman like you."
The old lady kept saying one unpleasant thing after another.
Ye Xinning chuckled and raised her chin to look at Shen Lin, "Your family insulted me like that, and you didn't say a word! Or do you think I'm that kind of person too?"
Although Shen Lin had some conflicts with Ye Xinning, and the issue of the child had created some tension between them, it didn't mean he would allow others to bully Ye Xinning, including her grandmother.
"Grandma, let go." Shen Lin said in a low voice.
The old lady became even more upset because of his words.
"She's so shameless, and you're still protecting her? No matter what, you have to divorce her today."
The old lady was particularly persistent, her tone was extremely harsh, and Chen Lin's gaze grew even colder.
"Grandma, I told you to let go. We can handle our own affairs; we don't need you to get involved."
"What do you mean I don't need to get involved? Isn't your business our business? What's so good about this woman? She's nothing but a shameless and despicable woman who has no sense of propriety."
Shen Lin couldn't listen anymore.
He reached out and grabbed the old lady's hand.
Shen Lin did this to protect Ye Xinning, but neither of them expected that in this back-and-forth, something would happen that they would regret and be annoyed about.
The old lady held Ye Xinning's hand tightly, and Shen Lin had no choice but to push her away. However, the old lady was too persistent, and Ye Xinning also exerted her strength, resulting in a stalemate between the three parties.
Finally, Ye Xinning had no choice but to withdraw her strength. Just as she was about to pull back, the old lady suddenly pushed her and then let go.
Ye Xinning lost her footing, and Shen Lin didn't have time to react either; her body fell heavily backward.
Ye Xinning slammed her arm against the coffee table behind her. She felt pain in her waist and hand. The next second, a crisp sound rang in her ears, the sound of something breaking was so clear.
That kind of thing...it's devastating...
It's the bracelet on her wrist...
Ye Xinning's lower back slammed hard against the corner of the coffee table, making her gasp in pain. But she didn't have time to pay attention to the injury. Looking at the bracelet that was broken into several pieces on the ground, there was no light in Ye Xinning's eyes. She even forgot to pick up the bracelet.
She remained in one position, experiencing the pain in her waist, the despair of her broken bracelet, and the relentless pressure from Grandma Shen Lin.
All of this broke her heart, and at that moment, one sentence kept echoing in her mind...
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