News about Ying Xiaoya also came back quickly, but she seemed indignant, not knowing whom she was angry at.
"Senior is so pitiable," said Ying Xiaoya as she sat down on the couch.
Cheng Su raised an eyebrow.
Ying Xiaoya heaved a long sigh. After a while, seeing that Cheng Su hadn’t asked anything, she said, "Why aren’t you asking me?"
"If you want to say something, you definitely will. Why would I need to ask? I was just waiting for you to finish pitying him," Cheng Su said with a smile.
"Annoying!" Ying Xiaoya pouted.
Before Cheng Su could speak, Ying Xiaoya’s own chatterbox opened.
The story was as melodramatic as Cheng Su had seen in her previous life.
After Xiao Pinshan and his ex-wife Ma Lili, both talented and beautiful, got married, they were affectionate for two years. But conflicts started to slowly arise after his wife got pregnant.
Xiao Pinshan was very busy with work. After Ma Lili became pregnant, the burden of the family seemed to fall on him. Back then, he was a supervisor at a factory, and naturally, he had to work overtime to rush orders.
Since Ma Lili stopped working after she got pregnant, focusing solely on giving birth, as a pregnant woman, she definitely wanted her husband’s company. But Xiao Pinshan was busy all day. Even after work, he had to go home and take care of her meals. Gradually, he couldn’t cope and had to call his mother to come and take care of things.
Ever since ancient times, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law have been natural enemies. Ma Lili wouldn’t give any face to her mother-in-law from the countryside. Xiao Pinshan’s mother was a gentle soul, enduring everything for the sake of her grandson and to not make things difficult for her son, while Ma Lili grew increasingly unreasonable.
It was not easy to endure until the granddaughter was born. There was constant quarreling, but Xiao Pinshan, seeing that she had given birth to a daughter for him, didn’t hold it against her. He doted on his daughter in every possible way, and his mother, for the sake of her son’s family harmony, went back to her own home.
Ma Lili, now a mother, turned into a full-time housewife. She didn’t work and naturally didn’t care about managing her figure. She spent her days gossiping and playing mahjong with the neighbors. Day in and day out, the former beauty turned into a coarse and resentful woman, resenting Xiao Pinshan for being poor, criticizing his work, and resenting him for not having time to accompany her.
Xiao Pinshan couldn’t help it. He repeatedly suggested his mother come to take care of their daughter so that she could go to work, but she would retort that he was incompetent and couldn’t support them. When their daughter was three years old, because Ma Lili complained that he was too busy with work to spend time with them, Xiao Pinshan resigned and then joined Golden Eagle, climbing step by step to the position of manager.
The better a man’s work became, the more he earned, while the woman could only ask for money, looking greasy and dirty, even disgusted with herself, which led to an increasing sense of inferiority, constant complaints, and mistrust. Conflicts kept building deeper and deeper; they would have small fights every three days and big ones every five, until their affection for one another was completely gone.
Physically and mentally exhausted, Xiao Pinshan finally proposed a divorce. He wanted custody of their daughter, and was willing to give her all the family assets, including the house. Of course, Ma Lili would not agree, making a scene, stalking him, accusing him of despising her and their daughter, alleging that he was unfaithful and involved in improper relationships, even causing trouble at his company with her accusations.
"How did they end up divorcing?" Cheng Su wondered. A woman like that should be unwilling to divorce even at death.
"It was Ma Lili who brought it on herself. She threatened the senior, saying she would agree to a divorce but wanted everything, including the daughter. She thought the senior wouldn’t dare to divorce for the sake of his daughter, but it turned out he really did divorce her," Ying Xiaoya said with a sigh. "It’s a real pity. Once, the two were admired by everyone as a perfect match, how did it turn into this mess?"
"Because life is full of melodrama!" said Cheng Su with a shrug.
A woman becomes a resentful wife; while the man certainly bears some responsibility, the greatest responsibility still lies with her. Ma Lili had ruined her own marriage.