Ideals and Youth: I Too Had a Youth (Part Two)...
System: Hmm?
They probably didn't expect that Ye Xiqing could find such a tricky answer to such a tricky question.
Before it could even give Ye Xiqing any value, Ye Xiqing first expanded the range of its attack.
Offense is the best defense, and that's exactly the situation now.
Choosing a course of action based on the system's logic means, under the pressure of a sense of righteousness, making an answer that is wrong no matter what.
However, it is much simpler to attack its fundamental flaws.
After all, the purpose of any family's "righteous cause" is not to make everyone's life better, but to silence the victims.
They've turned lofty ideals into something as disgusting as a gag, and they still have the nerve to flaunt them.
system:……
Originally intending to subdue Ye Xiqing with the righteousness of the nation and its people, it now not only has to prove that the righteousness it speaks of is truly righteous, but also that women are indeed among the common people.
"The project built by the male protagonist benefits not just one person, but the entire nation. Do you dare say that women haven't benefited?"
"Yes, whatever men do benefits the whole country, while whatever women do is considered as doing nothing, and they need to kneel down and thank the men for bestowing favors. Well, don't go too far."
“Bao Xiangqiao is the kind of person who does everything for her husband, from grinding grain to bearing his children, and doesn’t ask for a dowry. She’s the epitome of someone who kneels down in gratitude.”
"Just because you love to ramble, you're made a villain to be slapped and criticized. I've never seen you leave any way out for women."
"If you hate women to this extent, why can't you have some backbone and just say what you really think?"
"I just hate women, I look down on women, I treat women like tools. If you serve me and your service is bad, I'll beat you up."
"This is starting to resemble male-oriented wish-fulfillment novels. By going through such a long and complicated process, do you really think you can make the core message less obvious?"
system:……
Ye Xiqing didn't dwell on the plot at all, and went straight to the creative direction, leaving the system with no choice but to forcefully distort the original work.
After all, the original author knew that his own thoughts were not presentable, so he had already prepared excuses to shut him up.
"Host, don't think about things in extremes. There was more than one woman in the original story, and there were female characters in the construction team too!"
"I know, if there are no female characters, who will play the innocent and naive characters who drag the group down? If there are no female characters who are reckless and cause trouble, how will the male lead be given the opportunity to show the right side?"
system:……
"That……"
"That's just her individual personality, it has nothing to do with the group. It's just a coincidence that all the roles with this kind of personality are played by lesbians. Maybe that's just how lesbians are, right?"
"Oh right, the new wife who gave birth to a son and a daughter for the male lead, could she be the female lead?"
The system finally spoke, excitedly exclaiming, "Only..."
"No way! She's a vicious female supporting character, which is even worse. She'll also have to bear the new crime of being arrogant and domineering, forcing the male lead to neglect his daughter."
The system was furious: "You..."
"If I'm never satisfied with the portrayal of female characters, would I be satisfied if there were no female characters at all?"
system:……
Why can Ye Xiqing predict every single thing it says?
Ye Xiqing smiled, of course, because the system's tricks were really too easy to guess, and she smoothly arrived at the last stage.
"I would be very satisfied if female characters were completely isolated from birth."
"If we continue to rely on depriving women of their mothers to give birth, they will forget their roots when they grow up and boast that women cannot keep up with their rich and colorful real world and spiritual world."
"Hopefully, they can fulfill their wish of separating their daughter from their parents in the first step."
system:……
The righteous cause used to subdue Ye Xiqing was inherently flawed, and once its flaws were exposed, the system was unable to speak.
The frustrated and speechless system glared angrily at Ye Xiqing, ready to see how Ye Xiqing would turn Bao Xiangqiao's life around!
Women in this era actually had a harder time turning their lives around than they did in the Republic of China era.
During the Republic of China era, Ye Xiqing could still live off the descendants of Uncle Zhao, but now if someone dared to do the same, it would be illegal, and if they didn't want to go to jail, they would have to become a fugitive.
Ye Xiqing: ...
Is she some kind of outlaw? She can't survive in this era without breaking the law.
What, is the law made just for her, so that only she has to abide by it while others don't?
The idea of being a "good-natured person" was met with Ye Xiqing's gaze falling upon her familiar surroundings.
The first family she joined was Miao Shuangshuang's family, which was quite poor. Although she was born in the 1990s, they had retained the old look of the 1980s and helped her get familiar with the environment in advance.
The only difference was that by Miao Shuangshuang's time, the rich were starting to get rich, but Miao Shuangshuang's family was still poor.
The whole village is equally poor now, and Ye Xiqing feels quite good about it; she is not worried about scarcity but about inequality.
The Zhou family was a large family. Zhou's mother gave birth to five children, three of whom survived. Because she had too many children and did not take good care of them, her health deteriorated and she passed away early.
She traded her life for the sake of her three sons' basic needs, the protagonist's lifelong pursuit of justice and ideals, and evidence of the hardships her father faced raising his family. I wonder if it was worth it for her.
Anyway, no one will remember her. In this difficult era, the dead are the least valuable and the easiest to be forgotten.
Women dying for childbirth is an exceptionally common and worthless thing.
Zhou Wenyan's father, his two older brothers and their wives, each had their own thoughts, but none of them spoke.
Because needless to say, Bao Xiangqiao would speak for them, that he was her man, so if she wasn't worried, who would be?
The whole family was waiting for Ye Xiqing to speak, and Ye Xiqing couldn't let them down, so she uttered the key to unlocking the plot—
"If you go, I will divorce you."
She didn't actually speak very loudly, after all, she wasn't Bao Xiangqiao, who really had to struggle at the bottom.
Her consistently privileged environment has given her the composure to face anything with equanimity.
But Zhou Wenyan had already suppressed his anger to the limit, and upon hearing this, he immediately erupted into a fit of rage.
He slammed the stool to the ground: "Fine, let's get a divorce!"
If it were Bao Xiangqiao, she would be stunned by now, but Ye Xiqing is not Bao Xiangqiao, so she smiled gently: "Okay, let's leave."
...
The Zhou family members couldn't help but look up. Three sentences laid the foundation for the divorce. They were all stunned, even Zhou Wenyan was dumbfounded.
Bao Xiangqiao believed that divorce would give her control over Zhou Wenyan, which is why she kept threatening him with divorce.
Zhou Wenyan also felt that divorce would be a way to get revenge on Bao Xiangqiao, which is why he used this method of revenge.
Bao Xiangqiao cried and begged to change her mind and not leave, which emboldened Zhou Wenyan.
Ye Xiqing calmly agreed to the divorce. His mind calmed down, and he began to seriously consider the consequences of the divorce.
Although divorce is now free in this era, people still face immense pressure and social scorn, both in terms of legal procedures and public opinion.
Although Bao Xiangqiao had many flaws, she was, after all, a woman.
These days, women are becoming increasingly valuable, and once divorced, it's hard to find a new partner.
If he gets involved in this, will he be able to marry anyone else in the future?
Although those familiar with the plot know that a powerful, wealthy, and beautiful woman will be waiting for him later.
Zhou Wenyan was unaware of this, so he hesitated.
Ye Xiqing's change of attitude wasn't to make him hesitate; it was simply because she didn't like to speak loudly.
Seeing that he was backing down, she said without hesitation, "What's wrong? You were so tough when you said you were really going to divorce me, but now you're scared?"
Provoked by this, Zhou Wenyan's emotions, which had just subsided, instantly surged again.
As if intimidating Ye Xiqing, or perhaps encouraging himself, he fiercely declared, "Fine, let's get a divorce!"
When things escalated to the point of divorce, the Zhou family finally realized something was wrong and immediately came to persuade them.
Ye Xiqing didn't say anything, but looked at Zhou Xiaoya, who was only four years old in the corner, with a blank look on her face and no idea what was going on. It was time for her to become a mother again.
Although she is probably several thousand years old, Ye Xiqing still sees herself as a high school student who hasn't taken the college entrance exam yet.
In her heart, she should still be a child herself, and she was not ready to be anyone's mother at all.
Go up and see if you can pull her along. If you can, then take her hand and walk with her. She won't carry you.
Zhou Xiaoya didn't know what was happening; she only knew that her parents were arguing, and she was crying loudly beside them.
He stopped when he saw his mother's outstretched hand and looked at her in fear.
Zhou Wenyan saw her holding her daughter's hand and couldn't help but get angry: "Why are you pulling the child's hand!"
Ye Xiqing turned to look at him: "Divorce? You don't actually think the child will be yours after the divorce, do you?"
Zhou Wenyan was initially undecided, wondering why Bao Xiangqiao's personality had suddenly changed so drastically.
Now I realize that the solution was to find a way to control him!
If a man is controlled by such a foolish, ignorant, and demanding woman, he will never see the light of day again in his life.
Zhou Wenyan's stubbornness resurfaced; if he wanted to leave, he would!
Ye Xiqing initially tried to pull Zhou Xiaoya along, but the child walked too slowly, which dampened her spirits. So she picked her up and walked a few steps to the village office to get a certificate of broken relationship.
This was the first time a divorce had occurred in the village, and everyone who heard the news along the way flocked to see what was going on.
Zhou Wenyan felt extremely ashamed and kept his head down without saying a word at the village branch.
One of them was an intellectual, and the other was a notorious "big chili pepper" in the village—he was incredibly famous there.
When the village officials saw that they had come to file for divorce, they felt sorry for Zhou Wenyan emotionally, but they still had to persuade him procedurally.
Why do you want a divorce?
Ye Xiqing immediately used the universal excuse: "The relationship has broken down, we can't go on like this."
The village officials made no attempt to hide their disdain for Ye Xiqing, disbelieving her nonsensical pronouncements and turning to Zhou Wenyan: "Why are you getting a divorce too?"
Zhou Wenyan looked at the village official; his refined and handsome appearance made him seem even more pitiful than Bao Xiangqiao.
She took a deep breath and said, "Just like she said, we can't go on like this anymore. And it wasn't me who brought it up, it was her. Neither of us has any objection to the divorce."
Upon hearing this, the village committee immediately mobilized all its members, trying to persuade them to change their minds.
But no matter when, it's quite simple for a man to make up his mind to get a divorce.
Seeing Zhou Wenyan's resolute attitude and Ye Xiqing's calm demeanor, with no intention of causing trouble, the village officials eventually provided proof.
Upon receiving the certificate, Ye Xiqing barely hesitated before pulling Zhou Wenyan to go to town to get a divorce certificate.
The Zhou family originally thought similarly to Zhou Wenyan, believing that Bao Xiangqiao was just threatening Zhou Wenyan with divorce and that they wouldn't actually divorce him.
But how did they actually get the divorce certificate?
Upon receiving the divorce certificate and becoming a free person, Ye Xiqing instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
With this certificate in place, it will be difficult for others to infringe upon her personal rights.
Seeing that the die was cast and the certificate was in hand, Ye Xiqing finally showed a relaxed smile.
"We've got the marriage certificate, we're divorced, it's time to settle the score."
“I’ve worked for your family for six years. Even hired laborers get paid, right? Giving me a hundred yuan as a divorce settlement isn’t too much to ask, is it?”
“And the year I gave birth, it happened to be the time when the land was allocated. Xiaoya had four rows, I had four rows, and your family had two mu of land, which belonged to Xiaoya and me.”
“After the divorce, I will no longer be your family. These two acres of land cannot still be cultivated by your family. I have to take them with me.”
The Zhou family: ...
Um?
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