When they got off the car, Du Xiaoyu pulled at Jiang Xiaobai’s sleeve.
“What’s going on? You’ve gone overseas for six months, and a divorce is what you’ve decided after thinking for so long? Xiaobai, are you sure that… this is what you want?”
Du Xiaoyu wanted to ask her if she knew what she had said when she was drunk.
But her daughter was stubborn since young. If she told her daughter what the latter was like in her drunken state, would her daughter think that she was lying to her?
It might also hurt her pride and dignity.
“Yeah, I’ve decided.” Jiang Xiaobai smiled unconcernedly. “I had been torturing myself for the better half of this year. Actually, I don’t like this kind of life where I’m perpetually affected by my relationship every day. I’m a human, so I should learn how to control my feelings and emotions instead of letting them take over my life. If this goes on, I’m just wasting my youth and time.”
“So, what do you plan to do?”
“Divorce. I want the kid and live my own life.”
Du Xiaoyu looked at the kid in Jiang Xiaobai’s arms and suddenly said, “If you take the kid with you, it’s hard for you to remarry.”
“What’s good about marriages anyway? I won’t remarry after getting the divorce, Mom.”
You won’t remarry because you still have Xiao Su in your heart. Of course, Du Xiaoyu could only retort internally.
“I want to live a single life. I must have gone crazy in the past to marry him. I’ve wasted so much time on a man who didn’t even love me and have me in his heart. It’s so pointless.”
Jiang Xiaobai shook her head and lowered her gaze to the baby in her arms. “I want to live my life with him. I may even change my career.”
If she only relied on her writing, she wouldn’t be able to give her kid a good environment to grow up in.
I have to get myself together!
Du Xiaoyu was still very shocked. As they entered the house, she asked Jiang Xiaobai, “Do you think that you’ll get him if you just ask for it? Xiao Su’s family only has one son. Are you sure that your parents-in-law will agree to hand over the kid to you?”
“My mother-in-law has agreed.”
“What?” Du Xiaoyu was so shocked that her mouth fell open. “She has agreed so quickly? Your mother-in-law is truly generous. Did she not have the heart to reject you? Or perhaps she thinks that you won’t be with Xiao Su anymore, so she decided to let you leave with the kid, hoping that this will allow for a clean break? After all, men are different from women. Remarried women are worthless, but it is alright for men to remarry. I really don’t know what this world is coming to.”
“Mom, don’t talk about my mother-in-law like that. She’s a good person.”
“Even if she’s a good person, she wouldn’t be so good as to give away her grandson like that. I myself wouldn’t be able to do this. I’m not so generous.”
As she said this, she couldn’t help but sigh. “She is willing to give away her grandson. This means that she’s really good to you. Before this, she did say that she wants to treat you like a biological daughter, but I didn’t believe it at that time. Since she didn’t give birth to you, how is it possible for her to be so kind to you like you’re her biological daughter? But who knew that she was actually honest then? Perhaps she has really thought of you as her own daughter, which is why she’s so good to you now.”
“Yeah.”
“This kind of in-laws are hard to come by. That boy Xiao Su, even though you two have some problems between you, I actually haven’t seen him going anywhere for the past six months. He only alternated between going to work and taking care of the kid every single day, and he didn’t have any other intentions.”
“Mom, don’t speak for him. I’ve made my decision.”
She could love him and could also not love him. She, Jiang Xiaobai, was able to let things go. If she was in a marriage, she wanted to be the one and only woman in her husband’s heart. Initially, she thought she could be, but then she realized that it wasn’t possible. So that was that.
She could live a wonderful life by herself too. Let that b*stard Xiao Su regret his choices!
“I’m not speaking for him. I’m just telling you facts. I know that I’m old now and I may not understand youngsters nowadays. But when your father and I were younger, we had many issues between us too. As a married couple, there will inevitably be some misunderstandings and problems along the way. But I believe that we need to compromise with each other from time to time so that we can fix the issues and ensure that we fit better together. You didn’t give him a chance and just want a divorce immediately, even taking his kid away from him. To be honest, I feel that he’s really pitiful from his point of view.”
Initially, Du Xiaoyu didn’t intend to speak up for Xiao Su. But seeing how her daughter was so determined and unconcerned, she started to feel sorry for Xiao Su and couldn’t help but speak up for him.
She truly sympathized with Xiao Su and felt that he was rather pitiful. Jiang Xiaobai had left him for six months, and in return, he had waited six months for her. Now that she was back, she even took the kid away from him, and he could do nothing about it at all.
Wasn’t he pitiful? Du Xiaoyu felt that he was extremely pitiful!
“Pitiful?” Jiang Xiaobai tugged at her lips with some effort. “Compared to being pitiful, I think being pathetic is worse.”
When he ran into that huge fire to save the one he loved and abandoned Jiang Xiaobai to send his lover to the hospital, she felt that she wasn’t pitiful but pathetic.
She had wallowed in self-pity and tied her heart and future to such a man for half a year. Enough!
Du Xiaoyu looked at her daughter and knew from her attitude that she had made a firm decision, just like how she had decided to leave six months ago. Her fixed decisions weren’t something her parents could change.
Jiang Xiaobai settled her kid down once she got home.
At night, Du Xiaoyu pushed open her bedroom door and walked in. Then, she put an account booklet down in front of Jiang Xiaobai.
“Mom, what is this?”
“This is what your father and I have saved up over the years. It’s all for you. When you got married, we wanted to use it, but your in-laws refused to let me use it. Everything came from their own pockets. They probably spent a lot on that house. They have been so good to you, so if you want a divorce, you need to return some of their money back to them.”
Otherwise, they have given so much money but got nothing in return.
Jiang Xiaobai did not take it from her. After a brief pause, she said, “Mom, I have money. You don’t have to give it to me. Since this is your hard-earned savings over the years, then you should spend it with Dad. We don’t have much time in this life, so you don’t have to keep thinking on my behalf.”
“What are you saying? Your father and I saved up this money for your use. What do we need to spend it on? We’re old now, and we have no use for so much money. But you’re different. After the divorce, you still need to raise the kid on your own. Do you think that you can still work as much as now when you’re single? There’s no one to help you out, so you need money. Take this money in this account booklet and return some of it to the Xiao Family. Xiao Su’s mother surely spent a lot buying presents for you, and after returning some of the money to her, the rest is yours.”
“I won’t take it. If you want to return the money, you should return it yourself.”
Then, Jiang Xiaobai turned and got into bed. She fed the baby some milk from a bottle, and then she lay on the bed after the baby fell asleep.
“I’m going to sleep now, Mom. You and Dad should rest early too.”
Seeing her stubbornness, Du Xiaoyu became annoyed and left in a huff. Of course, the account booklet was left on the table, and she didn’t take it away.
