Li Xue paused while stirring the double-skin milk and looked up at Li Yang. Seeing her expression more serious than ever before, her heart tightened and she put down the spoon. "Well, I heard it, tell me."
Even though Li Yang had imagined what to say next countless times in his mind, when the moment came to tell Li Xue, he still felt nervous and reluctant.
Can Li Xue bear it?
Will Li Xue blame her for meddling in other people’s business?
She doesn't know.
But she understood that for someone as weak as Li Xue, the thing she could not tolerate most in her life was betrayal and deception, just like herself.
She clasped her hands in her lap and said, "Some time ago, I saw Xu Xiangdong in Jiyun Lane."
This was the first time she called Xu Xiangdong's name in front of Li Xue.
"Jiyun Lane?" Li Xue obviously didn't know this place.
Li Yang said in one breath, "Jiyun Lane has another name, Yanliu Lane, where many men go to seek pleasure.
Last time, I accompanied my neighbor's daughter to Jiyun Lane to look for someone, and I happened to run into Xu Xiangdong."
Li Xue's face immediately turned pale. She picked up the water cup on the table and took a sip: "Maybe he went there to do some business?"
She told herself to stay calm, maybe it was just a misunderstanding, but her hand holding the water glass couldn't stop shaking.
Thinking back on the clues during this period, the doubts in my heart could no longer be suppressed.
Li Yang shook her head, piercing her last shred of fantasy. "I saw him go upstairs with my own eyes. There was a woman inside." She paused, looking at Li Xue's face, which had turned almost transparent pale. "To avoid wrongly accusing him, I deliberately listened at the door for a while."
The next second, the sound of porcelain breaking was heard, and Li Xue could no longer hold the cup in her hand and let it fall to the ground.
Li Yang grabbed Li Xue's trembling hand and held it in his palm, not allowing her to escape any further: "Cousin, this is absolutely true. I didn't lie to you."
"Xiao Yang..." Li Xue stammered, and tears fell as soon as she opened her mouth.
She couldn't describe the feeling in her heart. It was as if someone was strangling her heart. Even the slightest breath would cause her to feel like she was dying. She simply couldn't accept this fact.
Why did Xu Xiangdong treat her like this?
She is still pregnant with his child!
Since she became pregnant, her health has been getting worse and worse, and she can no longer meet Xu Xiangdong's needs in that regard. His attitude towards her seems to be getting colder and colder. Sometimes when Zhang Xiuying and her husband are not at home, she would find Xu Xiangdong watching pornographic discs in the living room in the middle of the night.
At first, she found it extremely difficult to accept Xu Xiangdong's behavior, but later she thought that it was normal for men to have such needs, and it was better for him to watch DVDs at home than to go out and mess around.
So, Xu Xiangdong secretly watched movies, and she kept it a secret for him. Later, he often stayed up late at social events, and sometimes his clothes were stained with perfume, or he smuggled women's stockings in his briefcase, but she endured it all...
It seemed that as long as she wasn't caught cheating in bed, she could deceive herself for one more day.
But now that the facts were before her, she could no longer go on like this.
Li Yang knew that Li Xue would find it hard to accept for the time being, so he comforted her, "I came to tell you this today not to force you to make a decision, but because I don't want you to be kept in the dark and end up getting sick from Xu Xiangdong.
You just need to know one thing, no matter what decision you make in the end, I will support you.
Of course, I don't have a positive outlook on Xu Xiangdong and the Xu family. If you want a divorce, I will be your support."
When Li Yang mentioned the word "divorce", Li Xue suddenly opened her eyes wide, then lowered her head in pain and choked with sobs, "I can't help it, Xiao Yang, I really can't help it..."
Although people's mindsets are becoming less conservative now with the reform and opening-up policy, divorce is still considered shameful. Even if she can ignore other people's opinions, what about the child? Will the child have to live under the shadow of their parents' divorce for the rest of their lives?
Li Xue recalled her original family.
The second son, Li Jianhai, and the third son, Li Jianren, gave birth to sons one after another. Her mother could no longer get pregnant due to physical reasons. The Li family favored boys over girls. Her father, Li Jianyue, was foolishly filial, and her mother was weak. Their family could no longer hold their heads up in the Li family.
In the first few years, Li Jianyue cooperated with Yang Chunhua to force her mother to drink various Chinese medicines for giving birth to a son every day. Later, when he got older, he gave up hope, had no interest in work, and didn't care about his family. He even had a so-called mistress outside.
Her mother cried and made a scene, but Yang Chunhua only scolded her as a hen that couldn't lay eggs and deserved it for not being able to control her husband. She saw all this and felt sad, but she couldn't resist.
Once, when her mother was crying, she asked her, "Mom, Dad already has a family outside, why don't you divorce him?"
She still remembers her mother slapping her right in the face: "Divorce? How am I going to support you if we get divorced? It's all your fault. If you were a son, how could they treat me like this?"
After beating her, her mother regretted it and hugged her and cried, "My little Xue, it's not that I don't want to divorce you, I'm just worried that you'll be wronged!"
From then on, her entire childhood and adolescence seemed to be spent in her mother's tears and reproaches. Her temperament gradually became introverted and tolerant. She had no choice but to study harder and obey her family's arrangements. Even so, she still couldn't get the response: "My daughter is no worse than boys."
After many years of repression, she has become accustomed to enduring and no longer knows what resistance is.
So, do you really want to divorce Xu Xiangdong?
She has no courage.
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