Seven Years of Lies, I Ruined His Life - Chapter 13

Guan Qin returned the ninety thousand yuan I had transferred to her.

She didn’t even take the money for these past two months.

She specifically chose a time when our son wasn’t around to tell me.

“Consider this ninety thousand as me paying you back. And the sixty thousand for these two months… I’ve put the remaining three hundred and fifty thousand in a fixed-term deposit. I’ll pay you back when it matures.”

A few days ago, when Guan Qin’s parents called, she was in the kitchen cooking.

The phone was on speaker, and I happened to overhear.

Her brother’s issue was resolved.

But her parents didn’t say how.

Before hanging up, they reminded her several times, “What kind of job could you possibly find out there? A woman’s proper duty is to serve her husband and child at home.”

I rarely agreed with Guan Qin’s parents.

But this time, their words struck a chord with me.

Before the divorce, Guan Qin’s emotions were always all over the place, and I was exhausted by it.

Forget serving me; it was a good day if she didn’t have a sudden outburst and start a fight.

But after the divorce, her mood seemed to have improved significantly.

Back when my parents were persuading me to divorce but not separate, they told me, “Either you fight for custody of Xiao Yu, or you make sure he grows up under your own roof.”

They were worried that if Guan Qin remarried, our son would take on another man’s surname and call someone else “Dad.”

Thinking about it now, how was that even possible?

The money she got from our divorce, she had put it all into a fixed-term deposit.

And that money, she would only and would always spend it on our son.

And if it was for our son, what was there for me to complain about?

Plus, now that Guan Qin didn’t argue with me anymore, and I was back to being waited on hand and foot, life was actually pretty good.

I leaned back on the sofa and turned up the TV volume.

I pretended I hadn’t heard a thing.