Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 1358 - 1180 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

Chapter 1358: Chapter 1180 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

Zhao Family.

Last night, Aunt Zhao lit three candles, a scene reserved usually for the New Year’s celebrations. Inside the room, Uncle Zhao and Zhao Datu were seated.

Zhao Datu had fully understood the situation by now, his disdain was clear, "Someone mentioned a while back that Axiang had been fooling around with an idiot, and I didn’t take it to heart. I never thought she’d stoop so low as to live with an idiot. Just divorce her!"

"The divorce must definitely happen," Aunt Zhao also spoke, "but not yet. According to our Zhao family’s clan rules, a daughter-in-law caught cheating must be flogged eighty-one times before she can leave. If Axiang hadn’t been with that fool, we could’ve divorced her easily, but we haven’t divorced her yet, have we? She’s following in her mother’s footsteps by cheating, so she must feel the force of our clan rules."

Uncle Zhao had been gloomy all along, and it took a long while before he spoke up, "The reason Axiang did this is because you pushed her to it. She’s been back with her mother for so long, asking you to bring her back, yet you stubbornly refused. In my opinion, her being with that fool is just temporary. I’ll go talk to her tomorrow and have her come back."

"You dare?" Aunt Zhao burst out, "No one is allowed to see her. She’s a whore, let her be with that idiot if she loves him so much!"

Uncle Zhao then replied, "Go ahead and keep acting like this. You know what people outside are saying about us, how we mistreat our daughter-in-law. If Axiang really gets divorced, it’s going to be a problem whether anyone would want to marry Datu at all."

"Our Datu has plenty of ladies wanting to marry him. Tomorrow I will go and see Matchmaker Wang, she knows plenty of girls. Once they hear about our family’s situation, they’ll definitely want to marry into it!"

Uncle Zhao, tired of arguing with Aunt Zhao, shifted the focus back to Axiang since they were there to discuss her matter. He glanced at Zhao Datu, "Axiang is your wife. Find some time to go and see her tomorrow, to see if she’s really made up her mind."

Zhao Datu agreed reluctantly.

...

Only after enduring till dawn did Axiang manage to sleep a little, but then she was awakened again by loud knocks on the door. She opened her eyes.

Though she had slept only briefly, it felt as if many years had passed. And when she opened her eyes, she saw a strange room and remembered that this was the fool’s room.

She was momentarily confused, sensing a violent storm approaching, but she had no choice but to get up and face it.

She opened the room door, and the fool was no longer outside; he had gone to the kitchen to make breakfast instead.

The knocking continued, accompanied by the shrieking voice of Widow Chen, "Axiang, you’ve been insane all night. It’s not too late to come back now, hurry and come back with me!"

Axiang approached the door but didn’t open it, shouting through it instead, "Mom, go back on your own. I said I won’t come back, and I won’t open this door for you either!"

Having said that, Axiang turned around and went into the kitchen.

The fool was cooking porridge, steaming two potatoes on top of it for breakfast. Axiang didn’t mind at all, sitting down to help him stoke the fire.

There was no rain that morning, and the fog was thick, indicating a clear sky by noon. She pondered, planning to wash the quilt and tidy up the house after breakfast, just using well water for washing.

Widow Chen called out for a long time, but since the door remained closed, she eventually left frustrated, shouting, "Fine, you won’t come out, right? Axiang, I’m warning you, if you don’t come back within today, don’t blame me for not considering you my daughter anymore!"