Exile after Divorce? Empty the Scumbag Husband First!-Chapter 361 - 345: Since You Want to Live, I’ll Give You a Way Out (Part 3)

"Is there really such a thing?"

Ruan Mian only felt it was absurd, but thinking that their family was affected and exiled because of the late Emperor’s self-believed prophecy of a nation’s fall, these so-called rumors of six-fingered children being put to death didn’t seem so far-fetched.

But the late Emperor had long passed away, and what’s more, this was far away in Wuheng. Even if people knew a six-fingered child had been born, what of it?

"No need to worry, we are each overwhelmed with our own troubles now, who would care so much about this child?"

"I just checked; the child is very healthy. Except for the anomaly in the fingers, everything else is quite well."

As soon as the words fell, they suddenly heard a piercing scream.

The woman who had given birth had somehow awakened and saw the anomaly in her child, and in disbelief, she froze after the scream.

Ruan Mian hurriedly wanted to comfort her, but the woman, suddenly realizing the situation, tightly grasped her hand and begged.

"Madam! Madam, I beg you, please be kind, take this child in, would you?"

"He can’t stay with me. If my husband finds out about the child’s fingers, he definitely would not spare the child’s life!! I can’t just watch my child die!"

Ruan Mian was astonished, and even Ruan Qing beside her was taken aback.

"Sister, if your husband doesn’t want the child, you can still have him. Besides, your child is very healthy. If your husband doesn’t even acknowledge his own flesh and blood, you don’t have to go back to be with him!"

Her words shocked the woman as well, not understanding why she dared to have such thoughts.

A wife’s duty is to follow her husband; the husband is like heaven. Giving birth to a monstrosity was already a sin; if she didn’t follow her husband, who else could she turn to?

In this world, wouldn’t that be a dead end?!

"The child, he is a monstrosity, and I am his mother, I..." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

However, before the woman could finish her sentence, she was so agitated that she fainted immediately.

Ruan Qing also didn’t know why she felt a surge of anger rising within her.

"Sister! Did you hear what she just said, abandoning her own flesh and blood just because society doesn’t accept the child? And she blames it on her husband not accepting him!"

"Husband, husband! Is the husband’s mindset more important than the child’s life?! If that’s the husband, better off without!!"

If she had borne a six-fingered child like that, General Huo would never behave in such a way.

Yet amidst her anger, she also felt powerless: "Sister, she is pitiful too. I really ought to find out who her husband is. If he truly can’t accept the child, I..."

Ruan Mian soothed her: "No rush, wait until she wakes up, then we can ask her carefully.

Right now, the pressing matter is to find some milk for the child."

The woman’s health was not well; Ruan Mian examined her and suspected the milk was insufficient. Since the child was already born, he couldn’t be left hungry.

The aunt suddenly thought: "Didn’t a mare in our stable give birth a few days ago? The mare’s milk can temporarily suffice."

For now, there was no other way. Once the woman woke up, they would prescribe her some medicines to promote lactation, proceeding with both simultaneously.

After handling the matter here, Ruan Mian saw Ruan Qing standing dazed at the doorway.

Ruan Mian was worried that seeing the childbirth scene had frightened her and thus wanted to comfort her.

However, Ruan Qing asked her, "Sister, can this world ever get better?"

Ruan Mian was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Why the sudden sadness?"

Ruan Qing sighed deeply, her expression solemn: "I always lived under the protection of my parents, brother, and you, sister. The greatest hardship I’ve faced was nothing more than the sufferings on the road to exile."

"I believed I had seen all the coldness and warmth of the world and understood the complexity and malice of human nature. But now, looking at it, the true difficulty in this world falls on those women trapped in cages, unaware that they are in cages."

"Unable to read, unable to understand the truth, forced to conform their thoughts. In a world where the husband is heaven, they cannot even choose the life or death of their own children."

"In a broader sense, those in power, officials, they are all men. Women couldn’t even study openly and take exams! Talented women like you, sister, were still exploited by the Qi Family before. If you hadn’t awakened in time and used the opportunity of exile to escape the Qi Family, your future would have been unimaginable."

"And if I didn’t have your care, I fear I wouldn’t even have a future."

Tears welled up in Ruan Qing’s eyes, and she didn’t know when certain thoughts in her heart surged out like a torrent.

"Sister, when will this world ever get better?"