A metallic taste rose in my throat, and every breath tugged at my broken heart.
Tears welled up without warning, the scalding liquid streaming down her cold cheeks and dripping onto her clothes, leaving dark stains.
The blue sedan chair on her wedding night, the rumors that filled the city, and the countless nights she spent alone in her empty room—all of these memories now turned into sharp blades, shattering her last shred of hope.
"Fine!" Luo Yunqiao suddenly let out a shrill laugh, her fingertips fiercely slashing her cheek. "Since you don't like me, then I won't like you either! Let's get a divorce!"
"Divorce?!" Cheng Yuguang's military boots slammed heavily on the threshold, making the mourning cloth still hanging on the door frame rustle.
Luo Yunqiao turned around, stepping over the mess on the ground.
"Stop!" Cheng Yuguang's roar echoed through the corridor, but only earned him Luo Yunqiao's more resolute back.
He turned around abruptly, veins bulging on his temples.
Cheng Muyun's posture leaning against the headboard was like a piece of iron tempered by ice, and his nonchalant appearance completely ignited his long-accumulated anger.
"You unfilial son!" Cheng Yuguang's calloused hand slashed down with a whooshing sound, but was firmly gripped before it could touch Cheng Muyun's cheek.
In the instant the father and son were locked in a tense standoff, the air seemed to freeze, save for Cheng Yuguang's violently heaving chest. "Do you want to drag the Cheng family into an abyss?!"
Cheng Muyun drew the curtains, blocking Xu Zhuohua from the bed.
"Dad, I listen to you in the army camp, and I listen to you at home too, but this is my bedroom, and your daughter-in-law is still lying in bed. You still expect me to listen to you?"
The aura in Cheng Muyun's eyes was reckless and unwavering, as if he really would fire a gun.
Seeing the figure hidden by the curtain, Cheng Yuguang knew he was in the wrong and said, "If you divorce Yunqiao, without Chairman Luo's protection, the Si family will definitely take action against you. Do you know how serious that is?"
Cheng Muyun said, "I have my own ways of dealing with the Si family, but if I try to appease Luo Yunqiao today, he will inevitably come back again. Are we just going to let the Luo family lead us by the nose?"
Cheng Yuguang was momentarily speechless, and said, "You can try other methods to persuade me. Is your future more important than these personal feelings?"
Cheng Yuguang turned around and walked to the door. "Also, Zhuohua, at this time, as the legal wife, you should be thinking about your husband's future, instead of pushing things to an irreparable point for your own selfish desires."
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