The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 551 - 561 You Can Leave the Jie Family

Chapter 551: Chapter 561 You Can Leave the Jie Family

Gu Youyou continued inserting needles, and before long, ten needles had been fully inserted into Miss Du’s back.

After a moment’s thought, she asked, "Then, have you fallen in love with the second young master?"

A woman as calm as water when speaking of their entire family, Gu Youyou thought, must either love too deeply and hurt too deeply, reaching an unfathomable depth and becoming numb, or she was merely fulfilling her parents’ last wish on their deathbeds and didn’t actually love the second young master, so she didn’t care.

The courtyard was chilly, without a fire basin, and there was only a thin blanket.

Miss Du was now lying on the cold, hard bed, her back exposed.

The needle application took a long time, and she was already shivering and turning purple from the cold.

Gu Youyou hurriedly wrapped her body tightly with the only blanket they had, trying to cover her as much as possible.

By treating her this way, did they not want her to live anymore?

Gu Youyou couldn’t help but sigh, thinking men could be so heartless when they chose to be.

Even if there was no love, after all, the two families were long-term acquaintances, and it was said that Miss Du had already lived in the Jie Residence for two years before their marriage.

Two years, even strangers would have developed some affection by then, wouldn’t they? They wouldn’t simply watch her freeze or fall ill and die.

And her sister, not born of the same mother, but of the same father... well, never mind about her sister, for in the struggles within the household, because of different mothers, they could seem more like enemies than actual enemies.

"Even if there was love in the past, it has long since vanished in his indifferent and resentful eyes."

Miss Du was silent for a long time, thinking for a long time, before finally giving Gu Youyou such an answer.

Gu Youyou was somewhat surprised, thinking she wouldn’t answer the question.

The question she had asked was rather abrupt, and she regretted it after asking, but to her surprise, she got an answer.

This meant that Miss Du was once satisfied with this marriage, she fancied Second Young Master Jie and was determined to marry him. It wasn’t just because of the marriage contract, but also because he was the man she liked.

What could one say about such a tragic relationship?

Seeing that it was about time, Gu Youyou removed the needles from her body and helped her get dressed again.

The pale back, frozen to a purple hue, was so frail the bones could be clearly seen. The life she led seemed hardly better than Gu Youyou’s own in the old days.

Thinking this, Gu Youyou felt an additional measure of sympathy for her.

"If you truly can’t continue to live in the Jie Residence, you could choose to divorce. Your parents’ dying wish was for you to complete this marriage. You have married for several years and suffered for several years; leaving wouldn’t be a betrayal of your parents’ wishes."

"Divorce?" Miss Du seemed to have never considered such a thing, and upon hearing Gu Youyou bring it up, her eyes were filled with astonishment.

"Yes, divorce!" murmured Miss Du.

But with the Du Residence already reduced to an empty house, how would she fend for herself after the divorce?

Gu Youyou said, "Didn’t you say your mother’s family in Jinxiu City had skills and you could live on your own craft? It’s better to use your skills to support yourself than to stay in this cold, desolate courtyard. To let them go is also to free yourself, isn’t that good?"

Miss Du looked up at Gu Youyou with surprise, taking a long while to come back to reality from this woman’s unconventional thinking.

What she said was something these unloved women in the inner quarters wouldn’t even dare to think about.

But she made a lot of sense.

If it was destined that she would end her days in depression in this chilly courtyard, it was better to let go sooner.

No matter how difficult it would be to leave the Jie Family, no matter the amount of gossip and slander, it would be better than staying.

The Yu Family’s embroidery was famous in Jinxiu City, and her mother had passed the technique to her before she died, instructing her to teach it to her own daughter in the future.

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