"Jiao Jiao, what exactly is the matter with you?"
Qiao Zhenbang grabbed He Tiantian’s arm and pulled her back into the bedroom, lowering his voice and angrily asked.
"What do you mean, what’s the matter?" He Tiantian idly picked at her fingernails as if she hadn’t understood Qiao Zhenbang’s words.
"You, you just said that as long as my mother embroiders a piece for you, you would divorce me—"
Although Zhenbang also deeply disliked the matter of the embroidery.
In the memories of his "past life," he had not found any scene where his grandmother sold an embroidery piece for ten thousand yuan.
Because, in those scenes he saw, his grandmother was provoked to death by the malicious woman, "Jiao Jiao."
With the grandmother gone, even though policies later relaxed, she could no longer showcase the skills she once excelled at.
But, since "Jiao Jiao" had such dreams and believed them firmly, combined with his own and his younger brother’s "dream warnings," Zhenbang had every reason to believe that there must be something very valuable related to his grandmother.
It might not necessarily be embroidery, but it probably had something to do with it.
With this suspicion in mind, Zhenbang did not want "Jiao Jiao" to have much to do with his grandmother.
His grandmother was a part of the Qiao Family, and everything about her was the wealth of the Qiao Family, why should it benefit a disgusting, greedy woman like "Jiao Jiao"?
However, just as Zhenbang wavered over whether to divorce his wife and how he could kick "Jiao Jiao" out without harming his family’s interests, Jiao Jiao seemed to have shifted her demeanor again.
In the afternoon, Zhenbang had felt like he controlled everything.
Jiao Jiao was pressured by him and had to admit she had designs on the Qiao Family; she weakly agreed to comply with Zhenbang’s decisions.
If Zhenbang wanted a divorce, she would take the embroidery and leave.
If Zhenbang did not want to divorce, they would continue as before, at most just that his wife would not be as submissive as before!
But, in less than half a day, how had this woman changed again?
She no longer exhibited the guilt of "being exposed," instead showing shameless audacity. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ n̷o̷v̷e̷l̷f̷i̷r̷e̷.net
She became even more insatiable and unchecked than the real Jiao Jiao ever was, daring to be so presumptuous to her mother-in-law and even demanding dowries and bridal gifts...
What, what exactly is she trying to do?!
Whenever Zhenbang thought of Jiao Jiao’s arrogant and overbearing appearance in the living room just a while ago, he couldn’t help but get angry.
He really had never expected Jiao Jiao to be so greedy, not only coveting the treasures of the Qiao Family but even demanding compensation!
"Yes, in the afternoon, I indeed hadn’t thought about the dowry and bridal gifts."
He Tiantian put on a shameless demeanor and unabashedly said, "Wasn’t I panicked because you suddenly exposed my thoughts, and I just didn’t think of it then!"
"But well, after sleeping for the afternoon, I have sorted things out and suddenly realized, even if I originally had designs, it doesn’t justify being treated like a servant and enduring in silence in your house!"
Speaking up to this point, He Tiantian mocked, "Marrying a man is about food and clothing. Which woman doesn’t marry a man for some benefit?"
"Either for the person or for the money!"
He Tiantian sized up Qiao Zhenbang, "What do you have? Although you look decent, you neither have a job nor ability."
"All you do is deceive and loaf around, hanging out with a bunch of boozing and gambling buddies! I’ve been in the Qiao Family for almost two years now, has Qiao Zhenbang ever brought home a penny?"
"With a man like you, if not for knowing about your grandmother... huh, even if carried on a palanquin, I wouldn’t marry you!"
He Tiantian did not hide her disdain for Qiao Zhenbang, the scumbag.
Of course, as the script described, there were many helpless reasons for Zhenbang to become a scumbag.
Bad background, no proper way out.
But he didn’t want to scrounge for food from the soil like his father’s generation; being clever, he began to speculate in arbitrage.
And such behavior was illegal at the time; Zhenbang could only disguise it by acting like a scumbag.
At least before Jiao Jiao entered the Qiao Family, although Zhenbang’s reputation was not good, he still fulfilled his duty to support his family and took on the responsibilities of an eldest son and brother.
However, Jiao Jiao brought a generous dowry and, because of her ulterior motives, was particularly generous to the Qiao Family.
Zhenbang no longer needed to risk going to the city to make a living; gradually, he became lazy.