Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 866 - 0866: Divorce Application 4

He shook off Lu Zhaodi’s hand that was clutching his arm, "Who do you think you are? Feudal thoughts are deeply ingrained, do you think you can change them just like that? Even if you say you’ve changed, deep down, you definitely haven’t. I won’t believe you. I have only one demand, and that is divorce, divorce, do you hear me? If you didn’t, I don’t mind repeating it!"

As he spoke, Jiu Hong flicked his arm, precisely where Lu Zhaodi was gripping it, as if he felt his clothes had been dirtied.

Lu Zhaodi knelt on the ground, tears and snot streaming down her face. This sight deepened the feeling of revulsion in Jiu Hong’s heart. He stepped back two or three steps continuously, distancing himself from Lu Zhaodi, as if she were as bothersome and foul-smelling as a fly or a pile of excrement.

"Ah Hong..." Lu Zhaodi crawled a few steps forward and reached out to pull at him but he dodged her.

"Lu Zhaodi!" Jiu Hong’s face, a mixture of severity and disgust, he stated word by word, "I’ll say it again, divorce, I’m set on it! Don’t you think for a second that I will have a change of heart. Given what you’re like, my heart cannot be swayed, and my mind cannot be turned. You better behave and listen, and don’t make me call a meeting to criticize you for your backward gender preference!"

Hearing these words, Lu Zhaodi’s face turned deathly pale in an instant.

Although she had been confined to the house recently and was not aware of any new directives to abolish old thoughts from above, she had witnessed many government criticisms of landlords and capitalists back when she lived at home with the children.

The ferocity of those scenes and the cruelty of the methods made her shudder even now.

There were no landlords in their production brigade, so the county committee had them concoct one, and thus a person who had previously been labeled a rich peasant just ran out of luck and died, leaving his children with the cursed legacy of being the offspring of landlords.

"Ah Hong, are you truly this cruel? Don’t you remember the love we used to share?" Lu Zhaodi couldn’t help but hug her own shoulders, feeling icy cold as if in a land of snow and ice, even though it was not winter.

Jiu Hong spoke righteously, "It’s not that I am cruel; this is following orders, intolerant of your obsolete thinking!"

Lu Zhaodi let out a bitter laugh, "No, no, it’s you who are cruel, it’s you who disregard the old saying ’A day as husband and wife means an endless love’, it’s you who do not care that I gave birth to two daughters for you, it’s because your feelings have changed, that’s why you use the command from above as an excuse to get rid of me! If it were really because of old thinking, then I am saying I would change, but you won’t reconsider!"

She wasn’t a fool; ever since she had followed him to the army, Jiu Hong had always been cold to her, often not returning home.

And even when he did come home, everything was always rushed every night. There was none of the tenderness and affection of their honeymoon days, no you pity me, no adoration.

If it hadn’t been for sensing Jiu Hong’s attitude, she wouldn’t have fallen into madness after giving birth to Jiu Pendi. She had wanted to have a son to win back Jiu Hong’s affection, but fate did not give her that chance!

Jiu Hong’s expression remained unchanged, he retorted sharply, "What nonsense are you spouting? Shifting your own responsibilities onto me?"

"It’s you who are pushing your responsibilities onto me! It’s you using the guise of obeying orders as a pretext to rid yourself of your wife!" Lu Zhaodi suddenly stood up and yelled at him, her face resolute, "Jiu Hong, listen to me: I asked you nicely, and your heart is made of stone, unwilling to give me a chance. I won’t make things easy for you! You want a divorce, no way!"

Jiu Hong’s response was to slam the door and leave, utterly unaffected by the threat.

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