Rebirth of the Cannon Fodder in the Entertainment Circle
Chapter 504 - 503: How Could You Do This?

Chapter 504: Chapter 503: How Could You Do This?

Mr. and Mrs. Xi Shu looked as though they had been struck.

"You, how could you do this?"

Mother Xi Shu said with a trembling hand, "I raised you for so many years, and this is how you treat me?"

Sister Xi Shu scoffed, "You raised us to trade us for high bride prices. Isn’t that enough?"

"Over the years, the money our fourth sister has sent home has multiplied many times over compared to what you spent raising us. Isn’t that enough?"

She was forced to marry a man she did not love and had harbored resentment for years.

Especially since she miscarried after being beaten and was disfigured.

Now, being divorced felt like a release.

Mother Xi Shu couldn’t help but step back, tears streaming down her face, "We, we had no choice."

Xi Shu’s fifth sister sneered, "Are you going to say it was all Grandma’s doing?"

"As parents, you could sell your own daughters. Even if Grandma forced you, you condoned and enabled her. How dare you expect us not to break ties?"

"If it weren’t for our fourth sister, our third sister would have been forced to marry a domestic abuser much older than her."

"I would have been sold off by you at a high price too. Doesn’t your conscience pain you?"

Her mother only knew to cry, and her father, after begging a few times, was scolded by the old lady and sheepishly accepted it.

If these two wanted to show filial piety, their sisters naturally had no objections, but why should they sacrifice their happiness and lives for it?

The key was that despite selling them for high bride prices, these two didn’t get a penny, which was absolutely absurd.

Mr. and Mrs. Xi Shu, after hearing their daughters’ words, were severely shaken, one trembling and at a loss for words, the other crying pitifully.

But such reactions could not garner sympathy from the sisters.

After crying for a while, Mother Xi Shu looked up at Sister Xi Shu, "Da Niu, do you also blame me?"

Sister Xi Shu’s temperament had grown somewhat timid, but she was not as unprincipled and weak as their mother.

"Blame, why wouldn’t I?"

"You married me off to the mountains. If not for our fourth sister attending college and speaking to them, I nearly became a shared wife of those brothers."

"My own daughter even more so, was to be sold away. Clearly, you insisted on marrying me there, but when I begged for your help, you only verbally apologized without taking any real action."

"What right do you have that I should not resent or hate?"

In the mountains, some families with several brothers couldn’t afford to marry multiple brides, so they would take all their savings to marry one bride at a high price to be shared.

The children born wouldn’t know who their father was, but they would be that family’s.

Previously, Sister Xi Shu had been married into such a family, and the money spent marrying her not only depleted that family’s savings but they also borrowed a lot from outside.

She was supposed to be shared as a wife, but instead, only married the eldest brother through Xi Shu’s coercion and temptation.

Yet, because she bore two daughters, the other brothers in the family couldn’t afford brides, making her life exceptionally difficult.

She couldn’t eat well or dress warmly, was frequently mocked by her mother-in-law, her husband distantly watched, and she had to fear the younger brothers glowering at her like wolves eyeing meat.

Recently, her mother-in-law even believed others saying her youngest daughter was bringing bad luck to their couple, making them unable to bear a son. Thus, she wanted to sell the youngest daughter to get money for her husband’s brothers to find brides.

When she came back to seek help, Grandma and the others merely watched coldly.

What chilled her heart the most were her parents; her father didn’t even have the courage to stand up for her, constantly blaming himself and feeling miserable, while her mother just cried.

If it hadn’t been for her fourth sister coming back and successfully stopping that family from doing anything, and secretly buying them and their mother’s freedom with money and arranging a divorce, her daughter might have been sold somewhere unknown by now.

Giving birth to her daughter had been difficult, and she had injured her body, which meant she might not be able to have any more children. That’s when that family finally left her alone.

She was really fed up with such days.

Listening to her sisters, Xi Shu’s heart turned sour.

She made up her mind, "So what if I can’t have sons? Can’t a daughter provide for you when you’re old?"

"All these years, the money for medicine and medical visits for my dad have been provided by me. Moreover, I even support a whole household here. If having a son is so important, why hasn’t my cousin shown any filial piety towards you?"

She didn’t want to say more, "Now I’m giving you a choice, either take Grandma, or let her stay locked up."

"If you choose to keep her locked up, I won’t come back after I leave this time."

She stressed, "I will take my sisters with me, and my friend is powerful and influential, you can’t stop us this time."

Seeing Xi Shu’s determined demeanor, her uncles realized she was serious.

It was to be expected, after all, she had nearly lost her life. She was never a pushover, so not resisting would have been strange.

So they took Xi Shu’s reluctant parents out of the main hall and into the yard, urging them in low voices.

The gist was to first bring back Mom.

The Xi sisters were their own flesh and blood after all. Even if they had signed a breakup letter, the blood relation couldn’t be severed, and they planned to visit the Imperial Capital after some time and coax them.

If the children refused to provide for them in their old age, they could still sue and told the couple not to be afraid.

Xi Shu’s parents naturally didn’t want to break ties with their daughter, so they showed reluctance.

Then they were scolded by their brothers, who had initially tried to persuade them gently, and were even threatened that they were heartless and wanted the old lady to suffer, promising to flay them once she was released.

With Grandpa Xi also chiding them, the couple yielded as they had in the past.

They thought, after all, she was their daughter; a breakup letter couldn’t erase the parent-child relationship.

Once their daughters cooled off, they could reconcile.

Her uncles cursed the couple under their breath for being stubborn, not listening to good advice, and only agreeing when scolded.

So when they went back, her uncle said, "Your parents agreed, get your grandmother out and they will sign the breakup letter."

Though the Xi sisters were used to being abandoned, hearing how easily their parents were convinced to break ties still chilled their hearts.

Then came a wave of relief, finally getting rid of these bloodsucking leeches.

Xi Shu called Luo Ning.

Luo Ning then called Han Lie, who soon arrived with two officers in uniform and a lawyer arranged by Huo Rui, heading to the Xi Family’s house.

Since they saw on the video that the old lady and others were taken away by Han Lie,

they also trusted him, treating him with special courtesy.

Han Lie told them the grandma needed to receive attitude correction, but she could be released after being detained for fifteen days; they didn’t dare object.

Thus, under the witness of Han Lie and the lawyer, the Xi sisters and their parents signed the breakup agreement.

The lawyer would then get it notarized, and once it took effect, the Xi sisters and their parents would be legally separated.