The Old Lady was not someone unreasonable, nor was she bound by traditional views.
She understood all the points her grandson was making, but it was a surprise and a bit of a regret when she heard Christopher Moore bringing up divorce to Lily.
"Do you think Christopher will really divorce Lily?"
The Old Lady still held onto a sliver of hope as she asked.
Seeing a seriousness come over Adam Jones’s face, "Grandma, Christopher has been good enough. If it were any other man, they wouldn’t have lasted until today."
"How he’s treated Lily, we’ve all seen it. We can’t let Lily continue to harm him just because he’s easy to talk to."
Adam said with a serious face, not moderating his words because Lily was his own sister.
"Whether Christopher is determined to divorce Lily or not, that’s his personal decision, and we should not get involved."
At this point, Adam’s eyes grew colder, "I haven’t settled the account of how she bullied Elly in the past."
Why drag her into this all of a sudden?
In the end, the Old Lady didn’t dwell on it any longer, just waved her hand weakly, "Let it be, let’s see what fate has in store for Lily. We’ve done everything we could, let’s not talk about her anymore. Let’s eat."
After dinner, the Old Lady went back to her room to rest.
Elly also ended up going back to their room with Adam. As soon as they entered the room, she was embraced by Adam, and she heard his low apology by her ear,
Elly looked up at him, "Why are you apologizing out of the blue? Have you done something shameful?"
The mood Adam had been fostering was shattered by Elly’s grim question.
He smiled helplessly and lightly brushed her nose with his hand, saying:
"It’s just that when Lily was mentioned earlier, it reminded me of our three years of marriage."
He pulled Elly back into his arms, instinctively tightening his grip, the feeling of having regained something he had lost was particularly strong at that moment.
"If I hadn’t given her permission, she wouldn’t have had the courage to bully you like that."
Adam had said this to her once before earlier on. Actually, Elly really cared about this matter before.
But over the past few months of being together, how Adam had treated her, what she saw with her own eyes and felt with her heart, she knew that she was not the kind to be oblivious to everything.
Therefore, she had long since put the past behind her and didn’t want to bring it up like a resentful woman. Going on and on about it would seem pretentious.
She reached out to hold Adam’s face and roughly kneaded it, saying:
"Then do you know what you’ve done wrong?"
"I know," Adam said, holding her hand with a serious expression.
"Knowing you’ve done wrong, you should treat me even better from now on, not allow me to get angry or make me sad."
"That won’t happen anymore. If I make you angry or sad again in the future, just kick me out, strip me of everything, and let me beg on the streets alone."
Elly was amused by his words, but then looking at his troublemaking face, she said seriously:
"Before I kick you out to beg, I’ll have to splash your face with concentrated sulfuric acid to ruin it. Otherwise, you never know, some rich lady might fancy your face and take you home to keep as a toy boy."
His wife sure was fierce.
"The men Elly Campbell has been with, even if they’re ruined, I won’t let them off cheap to any other woman."