Chapter 123: Chapter 116: An Unexpected Calm (Part 2)
The two hadn’t waited for Su Xiaomeng’s response when Bai Fengmao brought out a basket of steamed buns, "Xiao Meng, come have breakfast."
"Mm! Thank you, Grandpa!"
Su Xiaomeng grinned at Bai Fengmao, her smile full of happiness.
Shan Minglang and Shan Mingxu, seeing Su Xiaomeng in good spirits, felt their hearts ease a little.
Then Su Xiaomeng started eating breakfast enthusiastically, while the twins, who were initially a bit scared, sat opposite her at Bai Fengmao’s urging.
Eating while observing Su Xiaomeng’s expression.
Lately, seeing Su Xiaomeng with no intention of holding anything against them, eating so deliciously, the twins thought, if she held a grudge, she wouldn’t eat so heartily.
Thinking like this, they found Su Xiaomeng quite open-minded.
So the two didn’t proactively bring up the past and instead engaged in casual conversation with Su Xiaomeng.
Su Xiaomeng focused on eating breakfast, only responding with simple "Mm," "Ah," and "Oh."
Yin Shixiu saw Su Xiaomeng was fine, so he went to rinse his mouth and wash his face, then returned to sit beside her.
"Does your wrist still hurt?"
Su Xiaomeng shook her head, "It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt much anymore."
Yin Shixiu sighed softly, "Girl... you really scared me to death."
Su Xiaomeng heard it, her heart tightened, and her eyes felt a bit hot, so she buried her head and drank porridge furiously.
"After breakfast, let’s go home. Dad and Mom have arrived, but they’re staying at our villa."
"Is it the villa where I was confined?"
Su Xiaomeng asked casually, without intentionally reminding anything,
But what the speaker said casually, the listeners took to heart.
The twins opposite, like startled birds, almost choked simultaneously on their food!
Seeing them like this, Su Xiaomeng lowered her head and continued eating breakfast, not asking further.
Yin Shixiu rubbed Su Xiaomeng’s shoulder, "Mom and Dad were very worried about you, they rushed overnight to get here."
"...Oh."
Su Xiaomeng responded faintly, took two more bites of the steaming bun, swallowed half, and then asked softly, "Uncle, did you bring my phone?"
"Mm, brought it."
Yin Shixiu handed her the phone from his pocket.
Su Xiaomeng took her phone and tucked it into her pocket.
"Call Mom later, yesterday... she didn’t know the situation, was quite emotional, saying she wanted to come and get you."
"Mm, I’ll call her in a while."
Su Xiaomeng said faintly.
Yin Shixiu originally thought Su Xiaomeng, upon seeing him, would rush over, aggrieved, or ask him to help seek justice, or at the very least cry a little.
He thought she would see the twins and angrily curse, stomp her feet in frustration...
But, this morning was incredibly calm.
When saying goodbye to Bai Fengmao, Su Xiaomeng wiped her tears, "Grandpa, you’re my lifesaver, and I will certainly honor you in the future!"
Bai Fengmao was amused by her.
Watching Su Xiaomeng leave, wearing clothes his daughter once wore when she was young, his mood suddenly sank.
Ticking off...
He’s already seventy-eight this year...
How many more years can he wait?
Wait for that silly girl to come home.
Two cars returned to the city district by ten in the morning.
Su Xiaomeng looked at the direction they were driving and asked, "Where are we going?"
"First back to the main residence, these twins can’t just be let off as is, their parents are home. We’ll go there first to demand an explanation."
"Then I booked a doctor for a full-body checkup, just in case there’s anything hurt that you’re unaware of."
Su Xiaomeng acknowledged.
"After the checkup, we’ll go home, to our own home."
Su Xiaomeng remained silent.
At this moment, the phone tightly held in her hand rang.
She glanced at the caller and then picked up, "Mom..."
Next to her, Yin Shixiu perked up.
"Mm... off the mountain, mm... going to the Yin Family..."
Suddenly, Su Xiaomeng looked at Yin Shixiu and asked, "What’s the address of the main residence?"
Yin Shixiu’s eyebrows moved slightly...
Seeing his bewilderment, Su Xiaomeng added, "My parents are already off the plane, um... if you don’t want my parents and your parents to meet, then change the location. I—"
Before Su Xiaomeng finished speaking, her phone was taken by Yin Shixiu.
Yin Shixiu took Su Xiaomeng’s phone, put it up to his ear, and looked at Su Xiaomeng with a gaze that’s distant yet seemingly indifferent.
Su Xiaomeng looked back at him...
Clearly wanting to evade, yet unable to move away.
Yin Shixiu spoke an address and then hung up the phone, handing it back to Su Xiaomeng.
Su Xiaomeng put it away.
Then quietly looked out the window.
"Yesterday... Mom called, saying she wanted to take you back to Chengdu."
"...Mm."
"Xiao Meng, are you angry?"
"...No."
"You never lie."
Su Xiaomeng’s eyes turned red; having cried so much yesterday, she thought she wouldn’t have any more tears left.
"Girl, you’re blaming me."
"...I’m not blaming you."
She looked out the window and said softly.
Yin Shixiu closed his eyes, looking at the back of her head, feeling a painful blockage in his chest.
"Are you going back to Chengdu with them?"
Su Xiaomeng did not answer him, she just kept her back to him, tears silently falling, not daring to open her mouth.
Afraid that if she spoke, her emotions would be exposed.
"...Girl, don’t go back to Chengdu with them."
The car stopped at the entrance of Zheng Garden, and Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin had arrived before them.
Su Xiaomeng calmed her mood temporarily and followed Yin Shixiu into the living room.
Shan Mingxu and Shan Minglang were kneeling in the center of the living room.
Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin were sitting, while Yin Shihua and her husband Shan Munan stood aside with rather ugly expressions.
Seeing Yin Shixiu and Su Xiaomeng return, Shan Munan was the first to speak.
"Little brother, sister-in-law, Mingxu and Minglang made a mistake, now they are here, do with them as you will."
Shan Munan was a writer, and since ancient times, intellectuals have a certain pride inherent to them.
No matter how much he wanted to speak kindly for his two sons... feelings existed, but reason did not.
Shan Mingxu and Shan Minglang were only nineteen, yet after hearing their father’s words, they did not feel resentment.
After realizing it was their own reckless actions that hurt their aunt, the two felt deep remorse...
Yin Shaohui looked at Yin Shixiu and Su Xiaomeng, "Since Munan said this, decide for yourselves how to deal with it."
Yin Shixiu looked at Su Xiaomeng, "Girl, you decide."
Su Xiaomeng looked at the two boys who were almost her own age and suddenly spoke, "First crawl through the dog hole."
"Then blindfold them, tie their hands and feet, put them in a dark, damp place, don’t give them food or drink, and keep them there for at least forty-eight hours!"
"Afterwards, they still have to kneel and apologize to me!"
After Su Xiaomeng finished speaking, Yin Shihua’s face went pale, and she was about to speak, but Shan Munan stopped her.
Luckily, Yin Shihua didn’t speak...
"That’s exactly how I felt."
Su Xiaomeng lifted her eyes to look directly at Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin, then at the Shan couple standing by the elders.
"When I was locked in a warehouse by these two brats, and I thought I was about to die, that’s exactly how I felt! They must pay for what they’ve done!"
"Do you want them dead?"
Zhou Mengqin asked coldly.
"When they locked me up, did they want me to live?"
Su Xiaomeng asked with red eyes, feeling tormented.
She couldn’t see anything, trapped in complete darkness, unable to distinguish day from night...
Every moment she was hoping, hoping someone would come, hoping Yin Shixiu would appear...
Hoping it was all just a bad joke.
But she counted and counted until she was in despair, hoping only led to more despair.
If she hadn’t managed to fray the rope in the end, or if instead of the rope, it was her own wrist artery that she frayed...
"But now you’re fine, is it necessary for the two kids to pay such a big price?"
Su Xiaomeng wiped her tears with her hand and nodded, "Yes, there’s no need."
"So that was just what I thought back then, my feelings have changed now."
Zhou Mengqin stared at her steadily...
She was aware of the injustice the girl suffered, but after all, she was just a daughter-in-law.
It was absolutely impossible to compensate by risking the lives of two grandsons.
Everyone was waiting for Su Xiaomeng’s next words...
Su Xiaomeng took a deep breath, then softly uttered four words, "I want a divorce."
These four words were like a heavy bomb dropped, making Yin Shixiu’s heart the epicenter of the disaster.
Even though Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin were unhappy with her, they absolutely hadn’t considered them divorcing.
Even though Zhou Mengqin had said the harsh words "with her, not me" just yesterday.
It was because they wouldn’t allow them to divorce that Zhou Mengqin found it more intolerable that their son married an ordinary girl without their knowledge, someone whose background was mismatched with theirs.
"Girl, what did you say?"
Su Xiaomeng ignored Yin Shixiu and continued, "Uncle, you wanted me to pursue a doctorate, I can’t do it, and I don’t want to. Aunt, you look down on me, you can keep looking down, but you can’t look down on my parents, my dad came from the countryside, but he supported a whole family when he was eighteen! Much better than your two grandsons!"
"Today this one wants to talk to me, tomorrow that one has demands, and one day they might lock me up again as a warning... I can’t take it. After the child is born, I’ll give it to you, but right now, I want a divorce."
"Su Xiaomeng, let’s talk about this when we get home."
Yin Shixiu reached out to hold Su Xiaomeng’s hand.
Su Xiaomeng turned to look at Yin Shixiu, and facing his face, she couldn’t hold her emotions, "Uncle... you were right, I did lie."
"I do blame you! I am angry! Why didn’t you come?! Huh?... sob... They locked me up, why didn’t you come? Sob..."
Su Xiaomeng couldn’t stop the tears from flowing.
Yin Shixiu’s heart twisted in pain at her cries.
"I almost starved and froze to death... I called your name so many times... I shouted until my throat was hoarse..."
"I’m sorry, my dear, I’m sorry. It’s my fault."
Yin Shixiu reached out and pulled her into his arms.
"Sob... The baby kept kicking me... I was so scared... sob..."
She pushed him away, hitting him!
Every thought of her desperately calling his name, only for him to sulk pointlessly, made Yin Shixiu feel heartache and regret, almost to the point of collapse.
He had no idea how to make up for it...
Didn’t know how to stop this girl from being afraid...