Chapter 271 - Let’s Go Back Home (2/2)

Holy crap!

This was probably Mo Shujun’s first time to forget her honorable identity and behave like a civilian in front of outsiders since she became the “princess royal”.

Not to mention Ouyang Yuxin, even Shi Qingxue couldn’t help but sigh with emotion as Mo Shujun was able to “bow and rise at will”.

“Humph! You just said something nice!” Ouyang Yuxin still looked angry, yet she softened obviously.

After all, Dong Hui was Mo Shujun’s daughter-in-law and would return to live in Duke Shi’s mansion in the future. If Ouyang Yuxin worsened their relationship, it would be bad.

Ouyang Yuxin murmured for a while and then finally agreed. “Okay. Since you are so sincere and have promised to treat Hui well, I will forget this misunderstanding and won’t bother about it anymore. I will let Hui go…”

Before she said the word “back”, a cold voice cut in. “I won’t go back.”

Dong Hui walked out of the inner room with a ghastly pale face and glanced over the crowd coldly, expressing her determination.

Ouyang Yuxin just thought that her daughter started to act rashly again, so she hurriedly walked forward to pull Dong Hui out of anger and cursed in a low voice, “What nonsense are you talking about? The princess royal came in person to pick you up, and she has apologized. Your husband didn’t plan to have a concubine behind your back. Why are you still stubborn?”

Dong Hui directly waved away Ouyang Yuxin’s hands and walked a few steps forward. She looked at Mo Shujun horizontally and stressed each word again. “I have divorced Shi Junhe. I won’t go back.”

Divorce?

Mo Shujun didn’t know this thing. Hearing Dong Hui suddenly talk about a divorce, she looked confused and turned to Shi Qingxue.

Seeing that, Shi Qingxue knew that something bad would happen. She walked forward in haste and grabbed Dong Hui’s arm to beg her. Then she asked in a low and sad voice, “Mother, will you abandon us?”

Dong Hui was stunned by Shi Qingxue’s pitiful expression.

Shi Qingxue decided promptly and pulled Dong Hui into the inner room. The latter loved her daughter and didn’t reject but followed Qingxue in.

There were only two people in the inner room. They stood face to face in silence for quite a while.

Dong Hui wanted to stress her determination once more, while Shi Qingxue stated in advance, “Mother, the letter you sent yesterday was blocked by me. I didn’t give it to Father and others don’t know this matter.”

“What?” Dong Hui was petrified and then expressed angrily, “You are messing about.”

Shi Qingxue acted shamelessly like a dead mouse feeling no cold and craned her neck. “I just did it. I don’t allow you to divorce Father. You can’t. You can’t…”

She shouted more and more loudly and it sounded that she was unreasonable.

However, her face was full of tears and she was fragile, unable to withstand even a single blow.

Even though Dong Hui lost her confidence in Shi Junhe, she couldn’t be completely indifferent to Shi Qingxue who acted like this.

She didn’t forcefully bring up the divorce anymore but sighed. “Why did you do that? It’s the elders’ business and has nothing to do with you. Even if, even if I divorce your father, we…”

While speaking, Dong Hui sobbed.

They had been a couple for so many years. How would a divorce settlement and the words that they would never see each other separate them?

Seeing that Dong Hui softened, Shi Qingxue took the opportunity and told her mother what had happened these days, including Mo Shujun and the third master family’s plot, the real reason why Leng Yan anxiously married her father and Shi Junhe’s helpless surrender.

In the end, she stressed, “Mother, do you think that Father is willing to marry Leng Yan? Grandma threatened him with the fact that you saw Master Yan secretly last time. She said that if he didn’t agree, she would ruin your fame. In order to protect your reputation, Father could do nothing but agree to marry Leng Yan…

“I know that you didn’t expect that, while everything has an exception. Father is so loyal to you, yet are you unwilling to make a concession?”

Knowing the truth that she had never expected, Dong Hui was dumbfounded and murmured, “I didn’t know. I didn’t know Junhe…”

“You know that Father is nice in every aspect, but he likes to keep silent when he does something. He did it for your good, yet he didn’t say anything, so there is a misunderstanding between you. Mother, now I have made it clear and beg you not to be mad at Father. He must feel sad, too.”

As Shi Qingxue spoke, tears fell from her eyes uncontrollably again.

She really didn’t want to see that her parents got a divorce because of such a misunderstanding. It was not worthwhile.

Dong Hui’s stunned expression faded away gradually and she started to feel sad for Shi Junhe.

In fact, she didn’t really want to part with Shi Junhe. She loved him so much, yet she had no other way to stop him from marrying another woman, so she had to ask for a divorce in despair.

However, it was different now.

She knew the truth and understood Shi Junhe’s helplessness, so she began to feel sad. She couldn’t help but say furiously, “So everything was your grandma’s plan? She even attempted to tell your father to marry a pregnant woman?”

Dong Hui almost gritted her teeth when she spoke out the last words.

She was clear that Mo Shujun didn’t like her all the time, while she had never expected that the old woman would treat her biological son so cruelly. It was so…

Since Dong Hui started to bear a grudge against Mo Shujun instead of Shi Junhe, Shi Qingxue nodded repeatedly and added the trimmings. “That’s right. Father is so miserable. He didn’t even have a say in this matter from the beginning but had to follow Grandma’s orders, and he couldn’t protest. Fortunately, we found the evidence against Leng Yan later, so the tragedy was avoided.”

“So the old woman came to apologize unprecedentedly this time, and it is your plan?” Dong Hui hated Mo Shujun to the bone and didn’t call her Mother anymore.

Shi Qingxue smiled and held her face with both hands, trying to ask for Dong Hui’s praise. “Did I do a good job?”

Dong Hui looked expressionless and glared at Shi Qingxue for a long time. Then she finally couldn’t help but smile while rubbing the girls’ nose tip. “Smart girl. Nobody is more capable than you.”

Shi Qingxue raised her chin arrogantly. “I am always smart.”

After laughing, she continued seriously, “Mother, Grandma has shown her attitude now. After you go back, nobody dares to speak evil of you. Please return home.”

Dong Hui looked serious and pondered for a long while. At last, after Shi Qingxue begged her, she nodded. “Okay. Let’s go back home.