"Please stop making a scene here, will you? Are you satisfied only when you've pushed me to my death?"
Seeing so many people gathering around, especially the scornful and disgusted looks in their eyes, the man started to panic, his tone becoming more impatient.
"I pushed you to your death?"
"Did I force you to marry me back then? Did I force you to have five children? Liang Feifan, you've let dogs eat your conscience, how could you say such a thing!"
"I, Shi Meihua, may not be educated, but I've done nothing to betray you, you..."
As the woman spoke, tears started to fall again. She couldn't understand how the man who had sworn to love her and provide for her for life could change his mind so quickly.
She had five children with him, the youngest not even weaned yet. How could he be so heartless as to want a divorce?
"You don't need to say anymore, that wasn't love between us, I..."
Liang Feifan wanted to argue further, to say that it was a compromise with reality, not love at all, but he didn't get to finish.
"Slap!"
Shen Rong was still watching the commotion when she saw her brother-in-law suddenly rush over, grab the man, and slap him twice. Sū Dān Xiǎo Shuō Wǎng
Not only Shen Rong was stunned, but the onlookers were also dumbfounded. Shi Meihua and Liang Feifan, the parties involved, were equally bewildered!
"You, why are you hitting me?"
Liang Feifan looked at the man in front of him, his eyes full of murderous intent, completely baffled. He didn't even recognize this man. Why was he hitting him? And with such a fierce look, as if he wanted to devour him!
"Why am I hitting you?"
"You're abandoning your wife and children, don't you deserve to be hit?"
"Don't tell me it wasn't love. If it wasn't love, why did you marry her in the first place? If you didn't like her, why did you have five children with her?"
"You just want to return to the city, leave your wife and children in the countryside, and find someone better in the city, don't you? This is selfish and heartless!"
"Did you ever consider how a rural woman like her would raise five children alone? Did you ever consider that without a father from a young age, your children would be bullied by others? Called fatherless bastards?"
"Did you ever consider how they would treat you in the future? If something happened to them, wouldn't your conscience ache?"
Chen Yang asked a question and then delivered a slap. He was so angry. Looking at this scoundrel reminded him of himself in his past life.
Damn it, what a bastard.
Liang Feifan was stunned, not just by the questions, but by the beatings.
Shi Meihua was also stunned!
Of course, Chen Yang's words seemed to strike a chord deep in her heart.
Yes, why didn't that heartless wretch think about her and the children?
Wang Ling looked at Shen Rong, who was equally shocked, and quietly tugged at the girl's clothes.
"Is your brother-in-law always this fierce?"
Shen Rong heard her words and shook her head in a daze.
"My brother-in-law is very gentle at home, he treats my sister very well, I've never seen him lay a hand on anyone."
Shen Rong answered instinctively, but looking at Liang Feifan, whose face was already swollen, she felt a flush of embarrassment.
"This is not fierce? This is gentle? What does this have to do with being gentle?"
Wang Ling's mouth twitched as she looked at Liang Feifan, whose face was almost as big as a pig's head. However, she kept these thoughts to herself.
"Don't pretend to be dead. Think about this issue carefully."
"If you truly believe you can completely disregard the lives of your wife and six children without any guilt, then so be it. From now on, all your subsidies will be given to Shi Meihua for living expenses and to raise the children."
"Not only that, but once you graduate and are assigned a job, you must contribute at least two-thirds of your salary each month to support these children until they are all adults!"
"If you can do this, write a letter of guarantee, sign it, and put your thumbprint, then it's acceptable."
Chen Yang looked at Liang Feifan. You can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.
If Liang Feifan was truly determined to divorce Shi Meihua, Chen Yang couldn't do anything about it. A twisted melon wouldn't be sweet.
If his words could make him realize his mistake, be willing to turn back from his errant path, and treat Shi Meihua and the five children well in the future, that would also be a good thing.
"I, I..."
Liang Feifan glanced at Chen Yang's murderous eyes and dared not say more.
His mind was in chaos. Before, he just wanted to escape, to escape his so-called youthful folly, to escape that dirty, messy village.
He didn't want to smell cow dung every day, nor did he want to work in the fields under the scorching sun. He was a city person, why should he suffer in the countryside?
But, listening to Chen Yang's words, looking at Shi Meihua, whose eyes were red from crying, and the five children beside her, the youngest still in her arms.
The little one was sleeping soundly, not even waking up from their loud argument.
And looking at the woman's tear-reddened eyes, he suddenly remembered that when he married her, she had also married him with red eyes.
Liang Feifan suddenly felt a pang of sadness. He didn't know what he was doing. Was it pure evasion of responsibility, or did he truly have no feelings for her?
Was it really as he had said?
Or was he simply trying to escape?
"Young man, thank you. Your words have actually made me feel a little better."
"Forget it. Consider it my eyes being blind. Liang, if you want a divorce, then divorce. Go wherever you want. From now on, we six, mother and children, have nothing to do with you."
"Don't worry, I won't cling to you. I don't want your money. I'll raise these children with my life."
"From now on, they will all take the surname Shi. They have nothing to do with you, Liang Feifan. Even if you die, I won't bring them to your grave to offer incense or burn paper."
Shi Meihua looked at Chen Yang. Her heart ached, but she endured it.
Looking at Shi Meihua's resolute expression, Liang Feifan suddenly felt as if a very important part of his heart was being dug out.
He wanted to grasp it, but it felt like he couldn't. The chasm that blocked him was precisely the sin he had committed.
"Bastard!"
"Look at the good work you've done. Such a good wife, such good children. Do you think you'll regret this later?"
Chen Yang looked at Liang Feifan's dejected appearance and knew in his heart that the young man had probably come to his senses and needed time to think for himself.
"If you've thought it through, apologize when you should apologize."
"You're going to abandon your wife and children after getting into university? Can't you consider working hard to earn money after you get a job and bring your wife and children to the city to enjoy life?"
"People shouldn't be so selfish!"
"Of course, if it's really as you said, that there's no affection between you two, then forget I said anything. Go be the heartless man you want to be. I hope you won't regret it in the future."
Chen Yang had done all he could. The outcome now depended on Liang Feifan's own choice.
However, after this incident, his reputation at school was definitely ruined. Unless he truly repented, he would inevitably be looked down upon.