Xu Ningyan hurriedly followed Jiang Yuan into the bathroom, patted her back, and poured her a glass of water so she could rinse her mouth after vomiting.
After Jiang Yuan finally finished vomiting, they cleaned up the mess.
The atmosphere in the living room was tense.
Gu Yong pulled Gu Zhiyuan and his brother aside, asking them to persuade Jiang Yuan.
The two brothers, Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui, pulled Gu Yong aside, demanding an explanation from their biological mother, Fang Dani.
"Dad, you can't do this to Mom! She raised us brothers with such hardship, never abandoning us or Grandpa and Grandma! She's been taking care of you on your behalf! She's been by your side for so many years, and now you can't just not give her a proper status, can you?"
"That's right! The third son's mother is determined to divorce you, so why don't you marry her? Do you think you can find someone young and beautiful, Dad? Don't you know how old you are? You're old enough to be a grandfather holding your grandchildren, how can you be so shameless?"
"Dad, don't you always say you're sorry to Mom and to us brothers? If you marry Mom, we can still be a close-knit family, wouldn't that be better?"
“Your third son’s mother doesn’t want you anymore, Dad. What’s the point of you still clinging on? Can’t you see? She’s been on your side for a long time! You can only rely on me and your second son! Dad, don’t let your relationship with your third son and his mother ruin our father-son bond for the sake of your third son and his mother!”
Gu Yongqi kicked one of them, yelling, "Shut up, all of you! When did it become your place to decide my affairs?"
He turned and scolded Fang Dani: "Is this the good son you raised? What? He's gotten too big for his britches and wants to boss his father around?"
Halfway through his rant, he suddenly remembered something, narrowed his eyes, and stared at Fang Dani: "Or was all of this your plan? Otherwise, why would you come knocking on my door after I've already gone to bed, saying you knew I was in a bad mood, so you fried some peanuts and wanted to have a couple of drinks with me!"
The more she talked, the more she felt it was true: "I said we'd drink in the living room, but you said the kids were asleep and you were afraid of waking them up! So you dragged me to your room to drink! And you were dressed so scantily! You did this on purpose, didn't you? You just wanted to sow discord between me and Jiang Yuan, to make me divorce Jiang Yuan and marry you, right?"
"You ungrateful bastard, Fang Dani! I've fed and clothed you so well! Is this how you repay me?"
Gu Yong's eyes were practically bleeding with hatred.
He had his back to the bathroom and didn't see Jiang Yuan come out.
However, Fang Dani was facing the bathroom and saw Jiang Yuan being helped out by Xu Ningyan. Her eyes flickered, and she stopped crying.
She wiped her eyes, her face full of sorrow: "Dayong! I'm your wife too! I've given you two children! I even take care of your parents! Apart from not working to earn money, how am I any less than Jiang Yuan? You say that Jiang Yuan is the only wife in your heart, then what am I? All these years, do you know how painful it was for me to see you introduce Jiang Yuan as your wife every time?"
"In other people's eyes, I, your first wife, am not as good as the women you married later, and my Dajun and Dakui are not as good as the two sons Jiang Yuan bore! Why? I also want to be your rightful wife—"
Enraged, Gu Yong blurted out, "Bullshit! Dream on! I didn't hold it against you when you remarried, and I even supported you—that's more than enough. You want to be a military commander's wife? You're not ashamed, but I am!"
One sentence was enough to drain all the color from Fang Dani's face.
She stared at Gu Yong in shock, and after a long while, she murmured, "But, but I did it to survive! You're not home, how am I, a mere woman, supposed to support my parents and two sons? I remarried, and I took them with me! Why did I remarry? I remarried to support your parents, Gu Yong! Your children, Gu Yong!"
"If I hadn't remarried another man, your parents and your two sons would probably have starved to death long ago! Now you actually despise me for remarrying other men? You despise me for being dirty? It didn't stop you from sleeping with me! In these past few years, how many times have you climbed into my bed while Jiang Yuan wasn't home? Have you forgotten?"
Fang Dani's voice grew louder, more agitated, and sharper as she spoke!
Gu Yong felt utterly humiliated and ashamed under the shocked gazes of his sons and daughters-in-law.
Xu Ningyan looked at Jiang Yuan with concern.
Jiang Yuan remained calm, but when she heard Fang Dani's last two sentences, she closed her eyes briefly, and when she opened them again, her eyes held a firmer look: "I don't want to hear you two tearing each other apart and spewing out a bunch of filthy things to soil my ears! For the sake of everyone's last bit of dignity, let's get a divorce, Gu Yong! Do you really have to make such a scene until the very end, leaving yourselves with no semblance of decency? Do you really have to make the last bit of respect your children have for you disappear? Do you really have to make me feel disgusted whenever I think of you, feeling like I've been married to a beast for the past few decades?"
Gu Yong's eyes were bloodshot, his expression bordering on madness. He looked at Jiang Yuan, his voice filled with extreme anguish: "Jiang Yuan, you can't do this! Have you forgotten the promise we made—"
Jiang Yuan interrupted Gu Yong: "You broke your promise first!"
Gu Yong still wanted to struggle and offer a few more words of explanation.
Gu Zhiyuan spoke up: "Father, are you sure you really don't want a divorce? Things have come to this point, are you sure we can still live under the same roof? Before things got out of hand, when you sided with them and ignored us, Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui were willing to hire someone to kill me! Now that things have come to this, do you think Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui will let me go if I don't let go?"
"If you truly want to repent, and truly feel sorry for my mother and my brother and me, then please let us go! Consider it the last bit of fatherly love you can show us as our father!"
"What?"
Jiang Yuan and Gu Zhixing let out a surprised scream.
Jiang Yuan grabbed Gu Zhiyuan and looked him up and down for a long time before asking in a trembling voice, "When did this happen? Why didn't you tell me? Why, you brat!"
Gu Zhixing's first reaction was to beat up Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui: "You actually hired someone to kill my brother? I'll fight you to the death—"
Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui looked flustered, but tried to remain calm: "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean by hiring someone to kill? Who knows who you offended in the countryside? Maybe you were discovered by spies and they want to harm you. What does that have to do with us?"
Gu Zhiyuan said calmly, "I only said you hired someone to kill someone. When did I say it happened in the countryside? Who else would know this besides the person who hired the killer?"
Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui turned pale, but still tried to argue, "You haven't come back from the countryside these past few years, so we naturally guessed it was the countryside—"
While explaining himself, he dodged Gu Zhixing's attacks, muttering curses under his breath: "Fourth brother, if you don't stop, don't blame us brothers for being impolite!"
Gu Zhixing grabbed a chair and smashed it over Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui's heads, his eyes bloodshot: "I'll be polite to you! You're about to kill my brother, and I'm supposed to stop? Today, it's either you or you die—"
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