With a sigh, she said, “Not being able to keep the child is a good thing for her. Her husband wants a divorce. If she had a child with her, it would be a troublesome situation.”
“Divorce?!”
Li Chunhua was even more shocked. Although she had absorbed many ideas from Lin Shiheng, she still fundamentally believed that once a woman married, she belonged to her husband’s family for life. How could she live after a divorce?
She lamented, “Is it necessary to get a divorce just because of one child? It’s not like she can’t get pregnant again in the future.”
“Not really,” Sister Zhang shook her head, feeling hesitant to speak further on someone else’s family matters.
Previously, if she had disliked Zhou Qianqian for stirring trouble, now she felt a bit of sympathy after learning the reason for the divorce.
Zhou Qianqian had many flaws, but she was always supportive of her only friend, Miao Xing, who had fled from domestic abuse at Zhang Yanming’s hands. After escaping and going into hiding, it puzzled Sister Zhang why Miao Xing didn’t go to the police but instead chose to hide.
Miao Xing found Zhou Qianqian just as Zhou had experienced a miscarriage and was feeling down. Her mother-in-law did not care for her health and returned to her hometown, while her husband often went on missions and didn’t come home. So when Miao Xing asked for help, Zhou Qianqian took her in.
During the day, Miao Xing stayed hidden in Zhou and her husband’s home, and surprisingly, no one discovered her presence despite the ordinary relationships within the courtyard.
Eventually, it was revealed that Miao Xing had been hiding in Zhou Qianqian’s house when Zhou, always one to gossip about others, was seen chasing Miao Xing with a broom.
When stopped, she cried, saying she had kindly taken Miao Xing in, but in return, she had seduced Zhou Qianqian’s husband.
Moreover, she had overheard the two planning to divorce their spouses and remarry each other.
Zhou Qianqian had just miscarried and needed her husband’s care, yet it was precisely at her weakest moment that her so-called best friend delivered a devastating blow.
She remembered that she once targeted Lin Shiheng solely because she firmly believed that Miao Xing would never get involved with a married man.
Because of this incident, she had always opposed Lin Shiheng and later targeted He Xuezhu, which caused her to become disliked by everyone in the courtyard, leading to her own miscarriage.
And now, the one who had once cried out that she would never have anything to do with a married man was Miao Xing—a woman who, while pregnant with Zhang Yanming’s child, was in bed with Zhou Qianqian’s husband.
Who could she blame? She chose to believe Miao Xing and even brought her home.
Zhou Qianqian, brandishing a broom, chased a half-clothed Miao Xing throughout the courtyard.
She aimed to ruin Miao Xing’s reputation, which she cherished most!
This tragic farce reached its climax when her husband slapped her face and declared he wanted a divorce.
Instead of crying and yielding as her husband wanted, Zhou threw down the broom and recounted everything Miao Xing had ever said to her.
The people in the courtyard finally understood why Zhou Qianqian had always targeted Lin Shiheng.
It wasn’t merely out of loyalty to her friend, but rather because she had been deceived by Miao Xing’s endless lies.
Sister Zhang and the others were hesitant to intervene; after all, it was someone else’s domestic issue. Furthermore, Zhou Qianqian had vanished after that incident and didn’t appear again until the full moon banquet for the Lin family child.
When Zhou arrived, her expression was off, and everyone felt it inappropriate to bring up those matters at the banquet. After the event ended, they noticed she was already gone.
He Xuezhu, who previously had little impression of Zhou Qianqian, was urged by a friend to be cautious, as Zhou had been targeting her. With nowhere to go and now this betrayal, she might be up to something.
After the banquet, when only the couple remained, He Xuezhu told Lin Shiheng about the situation again.
In retrospect, she felt a bit lost; if nobody had alerted her, she wouldn’t even have known that Zhou Qianqian had been targeting her all along.
Her impression of Zhou was merely that of a somewhat unsociable young wife.
Lin Shiheng chuckled and replied, “She only talks badly about you behind your back; she doesn’t have the guts to confront you directly.”
“However, the military is now aware of her husband’s situation, and it’s likely he won’t last long as an officer.”
In other places, scandals like this could sometimes allow a man to survive, provided he had enough cheek to withstand the public’s scrutiny, but in the military, which represented the nation’s face, there were strict regulations. If they secretly divorced and remarried, nobody might say anything—unless Zhou Qianqian, in a fit of anger, exposed it publicly.
That man’s career was effectively ruined, and so was Miao Xing, who had been outed by Zhou and chased around the courtyard half-naked.
Let’s not forget, while having an affair, she was still Zhang Yanming’s wife and even pregnant with his child.
Although still early in her pregnancy, with just a slight bulge in her abdomen, there was indeed a child inside. In situations where married couples often refrained from intimacy due to the wife’s early pregnancy, Miao Xing, on the other hand, was in bed with another man while carrying her husband’s child. Once this incident came to light, she would be utterly disgraced.
Lin Shiheng had little sympathy for their fates; for him, these people’s names would only taint his wife’s ears.
To outsiders, it appeared as though Zhou Qianqian’s husband had been dismissed, she disappeared for a while, returned to divorce him, and then vanished again, while Zhang Yanming took Miao Xing back, who thereafter never showed her face again.
Yet, Lin Shiheng knew that Zhang Yanming had taken her back to the Zhang family.
Before heading off to the military, Zhang Yanming was the most favored descendant of the Zhang family. Even if he was somewhat arrogant, he was adored by the elders, and even during his service, the elders proudly spoke of him.
However, everything changed once he stubbornly married Miao Xing.
Had Miao Xing done nothing wrong, the Zhang family wouldn’t have despised her so much. But Miao Xing’s reckless actions impacted Zhang Yanming’s career, and although stubborn, he had also been quite obedient with his family, yet he had started to defy them because of her.
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