Chapter 448: Unless He Kowtows

Putting everything aside, this alone was enough to make Han Ruochen hate the Qiao family. How could they just ignore her sister for two months straight? No matter what, her sister had worked so hard for the Qiao family for more than six years and yet they did not even care how she was living at her natal house. A bunch of ungrateful bastards! It was better to divorce than keep a man like Qiao Tingyan.

However, Han Ruochen knew that if she mentioned the word divorce, her sister would definitely not agree. In the current era, even the word ’divorce’ was taboo. Even her father wouldn’t agree to divorce Meng Yunhan unless extremely necessary. If not for the fact that society looked down on people who divorced, she would have advised her father as well as her sister to divorce.

But Han Ruochen knew that it would be useless.

Unless her father gave up on Meng Yunhan and her sister, she got her heart broken by Qiao Tingyan; even the heavens could not persuade them to divorce!

"Ruochen, but I am still married into the Qiao family." Han Xuehan was happy that Han Ruochen cared so much about her, but when she thought about the ugly words that her mother and Han Ziyan kept whispering when she was around and questioned her for staying at her natal home. They were not the only ones; there were also the villagers. "If I stay here, then I am worried that our family will have a bad reputation."

"Who cares about reputation? I am telling you this now, sister. You are not allowed to leave, and even if you want to leave, then my brother-in-law has to not only apologise publicly to you and tell everyone what he did, but he also needs to send that woman away and kowtow to you. Only then will I send you with him. We might not be rich, but we can always add another bowl and a pair of chopsticks on the dining table." Han Ruochen sneered.

She knew what was going on in the house, but there was nothing she could do. Her mother was stubborn as a mule, and there were some things that just wouldn’t stick in her head no matter what. Even if she told her mother to stop spouting nonsense in front of Han Xuehan, she wouldn’t listen to a thing.

As for Qiao Tingyan? Han Ruochen knew that her brother-in-law would never agree to these terms even if his life could not do without Han Xuehan. Since that was the case, she was not too worried; after all, Qiao Tingyan might be a useless man, but he was prideful and arrogant. As long as she said those words to him, Han Ruochen knew that he would never agree to them. Forget about kowtowing; he would never even apologise to Han Xuehan.

In fact, in his eyes, coming to their small village to take Han Xuehan back was good enough!

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"That damned woman!" Mother Qiao cursed as she looked at the mess in the courtyard. Ever since Han Xuehan left the Qiao family, their entire family had fallen into a state of crisis. When Han Xuehan was with them, she would work from dawn to dusk, and the entire house was neat and tidy, but now? The entire house resembled a pigsty. Though Xiao Ai came to help every now and then, she was an educated youth, and Mother Qiao did not dare to act arrogantly in front of her.

What was more, Xiao Ai actually had a job in the county! How could she act up in front of her?

She turned to look at her son and said to him, "When are you going to pick that barren hen? Look at the state in which we are at the moment? She is our daughter-in-law, and she should be taking care of us. Why is she staying at her natal family for so long? No matter how much she wants to make a fuss, it is enough."

Mother Qiao knew that with Han Xuehan’s temper, she would never divorce her son. At most, she was angry because her husband brought a woman home, but even if she was angry, there was a limit to which she could throw a tantrum. She was a married woman, and instead of paying attention to her in-laws, she was hiding at her natal family. What kind of woman did such a thing?

"I am telling you once she comes back, you need to beat her up! The reason she is acting all smug and haughty is that you don’t beat her. It’s all because you are always so nice to her that she has turned into such a monster." Old Madam Qiao was full of complaints when she thought about how Han Xuehan was not doing enough for their family and was causing trouble every now and then.

She just brought a woman for her son because her daughter-in-law was useless and could not give birth to a child; why was Han Xuehan acting as if she had been wronged to death?

Qiao Tingyan also agreed with his mother. Han Xuehan was getting more and more out of control. She was his wife, and instead of taking care of his mother and household chores, she was hiding in her natal home. She really had no sense of awareness at all. She couldn’t even get pregnant, and yet he had never complained about her. Was he not good enough for her? As for Xiao Ai, he just wanted to borrow her womb and give birth to a child for his family so that he could carry on his family line.

He had not even thought about divorcing Han Xuehan, and yet she was already throwing a tantrum in front of him.

Whose fault was it that he could not have a child? Was it not her fault? It was because she was incapable that he brought a woman home. Who was she trying to show her temper to?

"Mom, let her be." When Qiao Tingyan thought about how Han Yichen took Han Xuehan away with him, his face could not help but turn red in anger. "As long as we ignore her for a few good days, she will return on her own." Since the Han family was so eager to raise their daughter, then he too would see how long they could raise her!