Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Let’s Get a Divorce, You Can’t Have Children

The mother-in-law flew into a rage and kicked Li Xiaomu several times, yelling, “It’s all a setup! Kids these days are a bad influence, they just learn these tricks online to cheat people out of their money! ’Helping the police find a serial killer online’? That’s all a setup—they just hired actors!”

The mother-in-law said, “Hurry up and make that streamer refund your money! You damn spendthrift, all you do is waste money!”

Li Xiaomu immediately retorted, “Mom, I earned that money myself!”

Enraged, the mother-in-law kicked Li Xiaomu several more times.

Hurt, Li Xiaomu looked to her husband, but he immediately averted his gaze.

[What the hell kind of man is he?! His mother-in-law is beating Li Xiaomu, and not only does he stay silent, he even looks away.]

[That mother-in-law is way too domineering! Where I’m from, it’s the daughters-in-law who hit their mothers-in-law, not mothers-in-law who dare to hit their daughters-in-law!]

[Why are you such a pushover? Hit her back!]

[A meddling mother-in-law like that is so annoying. I can’t watch this anymore!]

Shen Zhiyao tapped on the table. “Li Xiaomu, you and your husband have been married for six years, and you still don’t have any children, right?”

At this, the mother-in-law’s eyes went wide. “That’s right! She’s been married to my son for six years and hasn’t given our family a single child. She did get pregnant three times, but she lost them all before the three-month mark. My daughter-in-law has been to countless hospitals over the years, but she can’t be cured.”

Shen Zhiyao said, “Because there’s nothing wrong with your daughter-in-law.”

“If it’s not my daughter-in-law’s problem, are you telling me it’s my son’s?” The mother-in-law glared at Li Xiaomu. “My daughter suspects that she had too many abortions when she was younger, and that’s why she can’t have children now! Young people these days have no self-respect. It’s an absolute disgrace! I told my son not to marry her from the start, but he just wouldn’t listen! Yueyue was so much better! She chased after my son for three years and was completely devoted to him, but he just wasn’t interested. If my son had married Yueyue back then, she would have probably given our family plenty of sons by now!”

Li Xiaomu said, her voice full of hurt, “Mom, the only boyfriend I’ve ever had is my husband, and I never had an abortion before we got married.”

Li Xiaomu looked at her husband. “You know better than anyone that I was a virgin when we got together!”

“Hmph!” The mother-in-law snorted. “My daughter told me. Medical technology is so advanced now, that membrane can be faked!”

Li Xiaomu frantically shook her head. “I didn’t!”

“Honey!” She tugged on her husband’s sleeve. “Honey, say something! Tell Mom the truth!”

The man said coldly, “What do you want me to say? You know best whether you did it or not, don’t you?”

His words shattered all of Li Xiaomu’s illusions. A chill spread through her heart as if it had been stabbed with a blade of ice.

With tears welling in her eyes, she said, “How could you say that!”

The mother-in-law berated her, “My son is just too honest, that’s how he got tricked by a woman like you. You’re just a hen who won’t lay any eggs, and you spend all day playing the innocent victim.”

Watching this family’s performance, the look of mockery in Shen Zhiyao’s eyes deepened. “Your son will never have children of his own.”

“What?” The mother-in-law heard this and collapsed onto the sofa. The blow was too great. She turned her head, her eyes burning with hatred as she stared at Li Xiaomu.

“Did you hear the master?! You, you’re going to be the end of our family line!” Her expression was so vicious, it looked as if she wanted to lunge forward and strangle Li Xiaomu.

“Li Xiaomu!” The mother-in-law grabbed Li Xiaomu’s shoulders and shook her violently, venting her rage. “You woman, what on earth have you done? How could our family line be ending just because my son married you!”

The sister-in-law egged her on, “Mom, hurry up and make her divorce my brother!”

“Right, a divorce.” The mother-in-law glared resentfully at Shen Zhiyao. “Since you can’t have children, you should make way for another woman.”

Hearing this, with tears streaming down her face, Li Xiaomu said, “I agree to the divorce.”

’If I can’t ever have children, then I can’t stay here any longer. Honey, I’m so sorry!’

She felt like it was all her fault.

The sister-in-law shouted, “Mom, you can’t let her just walk away! Make her give back the gold and silver jewelry, the diamond ring, plus the 200,000 yuan bride price!”

The mother-in-law said viciously, “That’s right, she has to return it all. We can’t let this bitch get off easy! After wasting so much of my son’s time, she has to give it all back!”

Li Xiaomu said through her tears, “I can give you back the gold and silver jewelry and the diamond ring, but the 200,000… I spent all of it on this family!”

The sister-in-law said, “I think you took that 200,000 and gave it to your younger brother! ’Spent on our family’? Do you think we’re all idiots?!”

Li Xiaomu glanced at her husband, hoping he would speak up for her, but he kept his head lowered and remained silent.

Dejected, she nodded and finally relented. “I’ll find a way to pay you back the 200,000…”

Seeing this, Shen Zhiyao spoke up. “You’re going to divorce her just because she can’t have children? She’s been a part of your family for six years. Do you feel nothing for her at all?”

Hearing Shen Zhiyao’s words, Li Xiaomu felt even more heartbroken.

’That’s right… She had been married into this family for six years, wasting her entire youth on them… but it was all irreparable now…’

[This is just too much! She’s been married into their family for six years, cooking and cleaning for them without complaint, and now they’re going to kick her out just because she can’t have a baby?]

[I get it now. This whole family just sees Li Xiaomu as a baby-making machine!]

[She’s been with your family for six years, why the hell should she give back the 200,000 yuan bride price? Especially since it was spent on your family!]

[You guys are too much! Xiaomu, whatever you do, don’t give them back the bride price! And don’t return the gold and silver jewelry or the diamond ring!]

The mother-in-law said, “The Old Chen Family can’t let its lineage die out because of her! No family would want a barren woman like this!”

Shen Zhiyao asked coldly, “When did I ever say that she’s the one who can’t have children?”

“Isn’t that what you were implying?” The mother-in-law was stunned.

Shen Zhiyao chuckled. “I said that your son will never have children of his own in his lifetime, not that Li Xiaomu is incapable of having them.”

Those words struck the mother-in-law like a bolt of lightning. The other family members were also frozen in shock, and Li Xiaomu was utterly bewildered.

After a long pause, the mother-in-law finally processed it and asked, “Why won’t my son have his own children? What are you talking about?”

Shen Zhiyao replied, “It’s just as you said. Your son has committed too many sins.”

The mother-in-law became frantic. “What exactly do you mean!”

But Shen Zhiyao’s gaze landed on the stunned man. “Why don’t you ask your ’good’ son how many girlfriends he’s had? How many women he’s made have abortions for him? He couldn’t even stay faithful after marriage. Ask him how many women he’s seen on the side, and how many of them he’s also made have abortions?”

Li Xiaomu looked at him in utter disbelief. “Didn’t you tell me I was your first love? That you’d never had a girlfriend before me? You’ve been cheating on me even after we got married?”

The mother-in-law didn’t believe it. “My son is such an honest boy. How could he possibly cheat? How could he make a girl have an abortion? And have an affair after he was married?”

The father-in-law roared in anger, “…”

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