Chapter 189: You’ll Drop Dead Within Three Days
Li Meilin seemed to vaguely hear someone calling her, but she had been too fatigued lately and hadn’t slept well, so she thought it was an auditory hallucination and reacted sluggishly without responding.
Until Nan Yuanman called out again: “Li Yiyi!”
Li Meilin paused her steps slightly and turned her head hesitantly toward the direction of the voice. When she saw Nan Yuanman sitting at a spot by the restaurant doorway, one hand holding a large meat bun and the other waving toward her, her face lit up with joy: “Little Immortal Aunt!”
She hurried toward her, as if a layer of bad luck had dissipated from her face: “How come you’re here?”
Feng Jingcheng scrutinizingly sized up Li Meilin and cast a puzzled look at Nan Yuanman: “Who is this…?”
“The mother of a client I met before.” Nan Yuanman gave a simple introduction, then pointed to the empty seat in front: “Li Yiyi, these are my brothers. Come sit quickly, no need to be reserved.”
“Have you eaten breakfast? Want a large meat bun?”
Li Meilin sat reservedly across from Nan Yuanman. Feng and the others nodded slightly to her as a greeting.
Li Meilin tidied the stray hairs by her temple and gently shook her head: “No need, thank you, Little Immortal Aunt.”
She had just come out to buy breakfast and get some fresh air.
The oppressive atmosphere at home made it impossible for her to stay.
Nan Yuanman shrugged her small shoulders: “Alright then.”
She continued battling the large meat bun. Li Meilin sat quietly and peacefully, watching Nan Yuanman earnestly biting into the bun. Her originally somewhat restless and depressed heart gradually calmed down.
Nan Yuanman quickly glanced at the bad luck on her face, swallowed what was in her mouth, and then asked astonishingly: “Li Yiyi, haven’t you divorced your husband yet?”
Feng Jingcheng: “Pfft!”
Wei Junchen: “Pfft!”
Xie Yifei: “Ha?”
Xiao Qidong: “Pfft cough cough cough cough!!”
Nan Yuanman held the large meat bun in both hands and looked at them innocently: “What’s wrong with you all?”
Feng Jingcheng quickly glanced at Li Meilin and, confirming there was no anger on her face, gritted his teeth and asked her: “Where did you learn this from again?”
“From TV!” Nan Yuanman tilted her head: “Aunt Qingwan watches TV that says when two adults live together and then separate, it’s called divorce.”
She just didn’t quite understand yet why, after divorcing, the two adults would gnaw at each other again, with the man always holding the woman and saying you’re mine, you’ll never escape, just like Grandpa says about fleeing criminals.
But no matter, once she grew up a bit more, she would probably understand.
Feng Jingcheng’s mouth twitched: “…” He knew it! Meng Qingwan was no good at raising children!!
Li Meilin’s face also showed some embarrassment, but she soon realized that Nan Yuanman wasn’t doing it on purpose; she was asking very seriously.
She rubbed her hands and said with a bitter smile: “Little Immortal Aunt, it’s not that I don’t want to divorce, it’s… my maternal family won’t agree.”
Li Meilin looked at Nan Yuanman, a desire to confide rising in her heart. She gently began, simply telling Nan Yuanman about her current situation.
Compared to the Luo Family, the Li family was much more ordinary in circumstances. After she married Luo Gaoyuan, her maternal family had frequently used the Luo Family’s name to drum up business outside, gaining quite a few benefits.
Therefore, when she followed Nan Yuanman’s earlier hint, kept vigilant of Luo Gaoyuan’s movements, caught him in bed with the mistress, and proposed divorce.
The strongest opposition came from her maternal family.
They said, which man doesn’t stray? Luo Gaoyuan just made a mistake that all men make. Forgive him this once, and he’ll settle down and live well with her from now on.
They said, if she divorced Luo Gaoyuan, the child wouldn’t have a complete family. For the child’s sake, endure it.
They said, she was already old; if she divorced Luo Gaoyuan, who would want her later? Life would be the same no matter who she was with, so just endure.
Luo Gaoyuan also knelt before her, slapping his own face begging for forgiveness, saying he was just momentarily bewitched and did wrong, that the person he loved most in his heart was her and had never changed, begging her to give him a chance.
Mom and Dad also asked her to think of them; if they had a divorced daughter, how embarrassing and shameful it would be in front of relatives.
They told her not to be willful, to endure.
Li Meilin couldn’t endure at all; she couldn’t endure a single minute or second, not even a moment. As long as she stayed by Luo Gaoyuan’s side, her mind would replay the sight of him and the mistress’s pale, intertwined bodies when she caught them.
Disgustingly filthy.
But she was also powerless to escape.
Back then, for the family, she quit her job, stayed home full-time to raise the child and be a housewife. All her money came from Luo Gaoyuan. Without her maternal family’s support, she had no financial foundation to divorce.
She… had been out of touch with society for too long and harbored fear in her heart.
She was afraid, afraid that her already chaotic life would become even more chaotic after divorce.
Plus Luo Yang, who was in his rebellious phase and didn’t obey her discipline… With all these things piling up, Li Meilin had been especially mentally exhausted lately, her mind gradually becoming dazed.
This morning when she got up, her mother-in-law had nagged in her ear again.
Saying things like, aren’t all men the same? Her son worked hard outside earning money to support the family, she couldn’t help him, so what was wrong with him finding another woman who could? Words like that made Li Meilin feel deeply suffocated and she couldn’t help fleeing that family environment.
But she hadn’t expected to run into Nan Yuanman here again… They truly had fate between them.
After hearing what Li Meilin said, Wei Junchen rolled his eyes without any regard for face: “Once a man cheats, there will be a second, third, fourth time. Such a man only behaves when hung on the wall. How long can you endure?”
Li Meilin hesitated: “But lately he seems to have really turned over a new leaf. He comes home very early every evening and even helps tutor the child’s homework…”
“He’s pretending.” Xie Yifei stuffed a shao mai into his mouth: “I understand men the most. This is to make you drop your guard. Believe me, if you give him a chance, he’ll do it again next time.”
Li Meilin’s chest tightened. She was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly: “But he and I… have nearly ten years of feelings. I… can’t let go that easily.”
Nan Yuanman stretched her neck to swallow the steamed bun, and mumbled unclearly: “But he, you though.”
“You are currently entangled with bad luck, your luck is at a low point. If you don’t make a decision soon, within three days, you will die suddenly.”
The childish childlike speech was like a sharp knife that pierced Li Meilin’s chaotic brain, making her mind go blank, her hands and feet ice-cold, and a chill creeping up her spine.
Nan Yuanman didn’t let her off, continuing: “Even if you luckily avoid this deadly disaster, later you will be implicated by him and face a prison term of up to five years.”
“Li Yiyi, since you’re not even afraid of death, why not be brave, completely cut ties with him, and start your new life?”
“You have hands and feet, as my grandpa says, even if you sweep the streets you won’t starve to death. As long as you don’t starve, there’s a chance to get better, but if you keep sinking into the quagmire, no one can save you.”
“And furthermore, those relatives who tell you to endure and endure, are they really your relatives? Are they really worth you spending your whole life, your life, enduring for them?”
“Li Yiyi, you are Luo Yang’s mother, your parents’ daughter, but you are also yourself, you have to learn to love yourself!”
Li Meilin looked at Nan Yuanman, who was holding half a steamed bun and speaking great truths in a childish voice, in a daze, and suddenly felt that she hadn’t lived as clearly as a child.
She suddenly had an impulse in her heart to let go and not care about anything, but after the impulse, a bit of timidity emerged in her heart.
What if after the divorce, her days are even worse than now? Although her mood is now depressed, she doesn’t lack material things.
Can she really endure days without enough money?
And Yangyang… will he hate her for destroying his peaceful life?
Various assumptions in her heart collided with what Nan Yuanman said in her mind, Li Meilin’s brain was exceptionally chaotic, she pursed her lips.
Why not… give it a try.
Take the first step, anyway… she really doesn’t want to live like this anymore.
Nan Yuanman looked at the constantly changing expressions on Li Meilin’s face, smacked her lips, not quite understanding why she was hesitating, but she respected every client’s choice.
“Li Yiyi, for the sake of our connection, this amulet is for you.” Nan Yuanman took out a talisman from her small shoulder bag and handed it to her: “I hope you can safely pass this ordeal and help me promote it well.”
Li Meil managed to force out a smile.: “Okay.”
She bid farewell to Nan Yuanman in a daze, returned home with a heavy heart, and when she came back to her senses, she was already standing at the doorway.
Just as Li Meilin was about to push open the room door, Luo Gaoyuan’s voice suddenly came from inside: “Mom, where’s Meilin? Did she go out again?”
The mother-in-law’s sharp voice rang out: “Who knows where she went to fool around early in the morning, really, she won’t enjoy the good life, she has to make everyone unhappy!”
“Son, why don’t you divorce her! That stupid woman can’t give you any help at all!”
Li Meilin’s action of pushing the door suddenly stopped, Luo Gaoyuan smiled and said: “Don’t say that about her, Meilin has helped me a lot, she…”
Before he finished speaking, Luo Yang’s cheerful voice rang out: “Daddy daddy, are we going to Auntie Qianqian’s place today? I want to eat the braised chicken wings made by Auntie Qianqian!”
Hearing the two words Qianqian, Li Meilin’s pupils shrank suddenly, and her hand on the door handle was trembling.
Luo Gaoyuan patted Luo Yang’s shoulder, shushed and said: “Don’t let your mom know daddy took you to find Auntie Qianqian!”
