Early in the morning, Ye Zhonghong opened the door and stood there, suppressing his inner joy, and said, "Li Ying, Grandma is back! She wants you to go to the living room."
Li Ying guessed it was about that document, and without hesitation, she tidied up quickly.
"Li Ying, your methods and schemes are about to be exposed. Aren't you nervous?" Ye Zhonghong said gloatingly.
Li Ying frowned, puzzled: "Methods? Conspiracy?"
"Stop pretending! My third brother has already investigated and found out that the girl who went to his room three months ago was Nuannuan, not you! Are you using this as an excuse to force my third brother to marry you? Let me tell you, now that the truth is out, you should get lost!"
Ye Zhonghong's dislike is genuine. From initially disliking her to now being at odds with her, it's all because she wants Nuannuan to be with Ye Jingchi, or for her sister-in-law Chunxue to be with Ye Jingchi.
Now that she has her wish, she naturally has no need to hide her dislike.
Li Ying ignored her and went straight out of the house to the front hall.
Besides the Ye family, Nuannuan was also in the living room, along with another middle-aged woman in her forties, presumably Nuannuan's mother, Mrs. Jiang.
Ye Jingchi sat on a chair to the side, his face gloomy, and he did not say a word.
"grandmother."
Li Ying merely glanced at the people in the room. From their eyes, she could tell that they all believed she had used what happened that night to force Ye Jingchi to marry her.
It's ridiculous. Even if Ye Jingchi was the man that night, Li Ying never intended to force him to marry her. She chose to make an agreement with Ye Jingchi simply to give her pregnancy a legitimate reason.
It has now been discovered that this step was actually a mistake.
"Li Ying, is the baby in your belly Jingchi's?" Grandma Ye asked.
Before Li Ying could answer, Ye Zhonghong blurted out, "Grandma, the child in Li Ying's belly isn't Third Brother's. I don't know which wild man's it is."
"Zhong Hong!" Tang Qiao shouted.
Ye Zhonghong snorted, sat down next to Nuannuan, and whispered, "Don't worry, I will definitely make Grandma give you an explanation!"
Nuannuan nodded, her eyes red.
Once the room quieted down a bit, Li Ying spoke up: "No. Ye Jingchi and I are only in a marriage of convenience. There is no affection or relationship between us."
Ye Jingchi raised his head and looked at Li Ying, who was speaking calmly.
That's how she is. When he went to Lujia Village and saw her being driven away, she was the same. She was calm and composed, like an outsider.
Today is the same!
Does this woman have a heart?
Ye Zhonghong was secretly pleased: "You're smart enough to say it yourself, otherwise it would have been embarrassing."
"Jingchi! You're being ridiculous too!" Tang Qiao scolded her son.
Ye Jingchi remained silent, his mind filled with the events of that night. He couldn't understand why it wasn't Li Ying, but Nuan Nuan.
"Since that's the case, how do you want to resolve this matter?" Grandma Ye gave the floor to Li Ying.
Li Ying knew that Grandma Ye was using a feigned retreat to get her to leave on her own.
A kind family like the Ye family would never do something like driving someone away.
"I told Ye Jingchi that as long as he finds someone he likes, we will break up peacefully and get a divorce."
Hua was slightly shocked.
Li Ying wants to divorce Ye Jingchi!
She said that Li Ying was prepared to leave the Ye family at any time, and it turns out that's why!
Hua Qingqing really didn't want Li Ying to leave; she still wanted to be Li Ying's sister-in-law.
Ye Jingchi stood up and finally spoke: "I drank too much that night and did something wrong. I know I should be punished, but I have no feelings for Nuannuan."
Nuannuan covered her face and began to cry softly.
Ye Zhonghong was displeased and jumped up: "Third Brother, what do you mean by this? You don't want to take responsibility? Nuannuan is a virgin, and you slept with her, so you have to take responsibility!"
Nuannuan's mother snorted, "How could something like this happen to my daughter? Ye Jingchi, how am I supposed to face people after you say I have no feelings?"
"That's right, Third Brother. Since your relationship with Li Ying is based on an agreement, it means there are no feelings involved. You should just break up. Let Nuannuan be my sister-in-law!"
This is Ye Zhonghong's favorite ending.
Ye Jingchi clenched his fists. If he had to marry Nuannuan, he would rather be with Li Ying.
But now that Ye Zhonghong has given the document to his grandmother, it's too late for him to change anything.
“Zhong Hong is right!” Ye Wenchi said, “Our Ye family has always been upright and honest in its dealings. If you do something so shameful and don’t give the other party an explanation, it will damage the Ye family’s reputation when people find out.”
“I can make amends, any kind of amends you want!” Ye Jingchi looked at Li Ying and continued, “Li Ying and I are in a military marriage, we can’t get divorced.”
Li Ying looked at Ye Jingchi and thought, "What do you mean by 'military marriages can't be dissolved'? You're obviously worried that she'll be burdened with the stigma of being a second-time bride and won't be able to find someone better to marry in the future."
Li Ying smiled brightly; at this moment, she felt a bit grateful to Ye Jingchi.
"Compensation? Can you clear my daughter's name? Ye Jingchi, you can't just settle this with a word like compensation! Either you marry Nuannuan, or I'll report you to your military unit!" Nuannuan's mother rebuked sharply.
Nuannuan tugged at her mother's arm: "Mom, you can't do this. It will ruin Third Brother's life."
"You're still worried about his whole life? Didn't you hear me? He has no intention of taking responsibility for you at all!" Nuannuan's mother poked her daughter's forehead in exasperation.
Ye Zhonghong said angrily, "Third Brother, Nuannuan has always liked you, you know that, so why say such hurtful things? Li Ying has already agreed to the divorce, what are you still insisting on?"
“My agreement with Li Ying is very clear: we have a one-year marriage. I cannot break the contract! Besides, I only recently applied for marriage with Li Ying, and you want me to apply for divorce now?”
Everyone immediately fell silent.
Yes, if Ye Jingchi were to apply for a divorce now, what would the military think of him? If they had something on him, he wouldn't be allowed to become a battalion commander, or even a company commander; he might even be forced to retire.
"How about this, I'll move out of the Ye family's house, and then file for divorce a year later. That way, neither of us will be hurt." Li Ying turned to look at Nuan Nuan: "You can't possibly wait a whole year, can you?"
Nuannuan realized that pushing Ye Jingchi too hard might cause him to lose his current position, while Li Ying's suggestion was exactly what they were going through.
Grandma Ye nodded slightly: "Mrs. Jiang, how about we do as Li Ying suggested?"
After thinking it over, Nuanma figured that since she had the document in her hand, she wasn't worried that Ye Jingchi would go back on his word.
One year it is!
"There's no better way right now, so let's just leave it at that. But I hope that Ye Jingchi will fall in love with my daughter this year, and that I, as her mother, will be at ease when they get married in the future."
"Then let Nuannuan move into our house and live with Third Brother!" Ye Zhonghong suggested.
"No way!" Ye Jingchi refused decisively: "Ye Zhonghong, do you want me to have an extramarital affair and be kicked out of the army?"
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