The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 574: The Powerful Bullying People (2)_1

Chapter 574: Chapter 574: The Powerful Bullying People (2)_1

Li Baoxiang felt that he couldn’t pretend to be unaware or play the fool; he should take the initiative to apologize, to lessen the disgust and hatred Pei Qin and the Fang family felt towards him.

So, the very next day, before dawn, he dressed neatly and had Sun Xiujin get up to go with him to apologize, "If we can secure Pei Qin’s forgiveness, perhaps we can still salvage some of our losses. If not..."

"Then you’ll divorce me, is that it!?" After a night of reflection, Sun Xiujin had begun to feel some fear. Yet Li Baoxiang’s attitude once again enraged her.

"Don’t think I won’t! No daughter-in-law of our Li family has ever been so cruel to her own sisters, so scheming in the darkness! You have now touched upon the ’seven outs’ for divorce; I have every right to dismiss you!" Li Baoxiang had been barely satisfied with Sun Xiujin before, but now she had brought trouble upon him, not accidentally but intentionally, and she had only given birth to daughters; getting rid of her was no more than a piece of paper away.

"You..." Sun Xiujin’s face turned ashen with hatred.

Miao’s groggily woke up and immediately got up when she heard, "Li Baoxiang, you dare! On what grounds could your family dismiss Xiujin!?"

Li Baoxiang faced her boldly as she came storming out, "On the grounds that she violated one of the ’seven outs’—’excessive speech leading to discord,’ disrupting the harmony among my relatives and wreaking havoc within our family. And she certainly hasn’t complied with any of the ’three rules of not dismissing.’

"Go ahead and divorce me! See if you can find anyone else of your kind of character to remarry!" Sun Xiujin gnashed her teeth in fury and hate.

"I can certainly remarry, but you, with your kind—might not so easily," Li Baoxiang was never afraid of losing Sun Xiujin; he was confident he could find someone better. Now that he had acknowledged the Fang family as close kin and become like siblings with Sister Peiqin and her brother, as long as he achieved scholarly honors in next spring’s examination and did not fall from grace, why would he have trouble finding another wife?

Thus, he did not bring her with him, but went out alone to Liu’er Alley to offer his apologies.

Pei Qin had not yet risen, and lay in bed feeding her daughter Jiujiu milk, barely lifting an eye when she heard Li Baoxiang had come to apologize.

Li Baoxiang’s visit was not solely to apologize; he also wanted to clarify exactly why Sun Xiujin resented Pei Qin so fiercely, what had driven her to scheme with Old Pei’s House and Zhang Shiqian to harm Pei Qin.

Pei Qin couldn’t be bothered with him, but Pei Qian, hearing this, ran over even with her face half-washed, "I knew she was up to no good, such a venomous, despicable woman with a wolf’s heart and a dog’s lungs! She couldn’t win Brother Songming’s affection, so she turned her resentment on us! Bah! She can’t even face her own ugly reflection in a puddle, as hideous as an old hag, yet so vile. Even Brother Songming’s foot-washing maid is a hundred times better than her! Still, she deluded herself with grand dreams of rising above her station to enjoy wealth and splendor. What a laughing stock!"

Li Baoxiang’s face changed instantly, "What does this have to do with Young Master Shen... again?"

"You come to apologize and still don’t know?" Pei Qian asked, then snorted with a cold laugh, "She saw Brother Songming hailed from an aristocratic family and tried to curry favor with him several times, only to be rejected! When she heard Brother Songming was proposing to my elder sister, her vile heart bore resentful grudges against my elder sister! She pretended to be a kind sister but plotted evil in her heart. I’ve never seen such a treacherous, cruel woman before!"

Li Baoxiang stepped back, unable to believe it, but the thought of Sun Xiujin writing such a note forced him to accept the reality.

Seeing his face turn pale and green, Pei Qian was not satisfied and poured fuel on the fire, "She never wanted to marry you or even look at your family! Marrying you was never her desire! She dreamt of clinging to a high branch, but failing that, she had no choice but to marry you. Even after getting married, she wasn’t content to settle down. My elder sister is also married, yet she secretly harms her. To bring such a person into your family is truly a blessing for the Li family!"

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