Just got back from my hometown, too tired, more updates tomorrow.

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After Xiao Bingqi and his son went to prison, Lu Yuer’s status in the Xiao family plummeted.

Originally, she stayed back home to take care of her in-laws, and at that time, her younger brother and sister-in-law fawned over her. Now, they hardly even want to look at her.

As for Old Man Xiao and Old Madam Xiao, they didn’t show any kindness to this daughter-in-law either. They believed that their son ended up like this because the daughter-in-law was not virtuous enough.

Whether their reasoning was logical or not, they didn’t care.

Every day, she got up early to cook for her in-laws, then went to the morning market to buy groceries. Once back home, she would start cleaning the house and washing clothes. After finishing all this, she would massage her in-laws before it was time for lunch.

At noon, the son and daughter of her brother-in-law, Xiao Binghua, would come to their grandparents’ home to eat. The son was the older one, turning nineteen this year, and the daughter was eighteen, both at an age where they ate a lot, but they were also picky. Maybe influenced by the adults, they were not polite to her at all and often picked and chose their food. Old Man Xiao and Old Madam Xiao just sat there, allowing their grandchildren to bully the eldest daughter-in-law, not caring at all.

After lunch, the old man and old lady would take a nap, and she would sit there making toys, usually having to make about three hundred in an afternoon, so exhausted that she couldn’t even lift her neck, but she didn’t dare to rest at all.

Thinking back on the past, she would often be in tears. After experiencing this upheaval, she had a deeper understanding of human nature and also more disappointment in it.

When she went to visit her husband and son, they both said that the ones who harmed them were the Zhou family. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in this state now. At first, she also hated the Zhou family members, but now she felt that the ones they should hate more were their own family members.

If not for wanting to show off in front of a large family, if not for their own vanity, how could they have made such choices and done such things?

But these thoughts, she could only keep to herself. She believed that if her husband’s family knew she thought this way, they would surely kick her out of the Xiao family immediately.

And she also knew that they were tormenting her like this just to hope she would leave the Xiao family herself. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The more she thought about it, the more her heart felt cold.

Originally, when Xiao Bingqi was in position, she would also be the one staying back home to take care of the in-laws. No matter how many wrongs Xiao Bingqi did, there was one thing to be praised, and that was his filial piety. Back then, the in-laws praised their son for being filial and their daughter-in-law for being considerate to everyone they met.

But now, she still took care of them as she did before, yet the two old ones told everyone that she was a jinx, that she harmed their son and the whole family. She just couldn’t understand, how exactly had she harmed them?

Did they really think she didn’t know? Wasn’t it just for this house under her name?

But why didn’t they think that back then, when her husband was in position, the brother and sister-in-law didn’t care about them at all? And now, if they did take the house back and gave it to them, would they really care for them?

Also, the brother and sister-in-law’s work was not as good as before, could that also be blamed on her? Then who should she blame?

On her maternal family’s side, after Xiao Bingqi got into trouble, they became particularly cold to her too, afraid she’d go back and embarrass them. If it weren’t for the belief in waiting for her husband’s release supporting her, she really wouldn’t have been able to endure...

The sharp pain in her waist brought Lu Yuer back to her senses. She looked up to see her mother-in-law holding a crutch and glaring at her angrily. Seeing her look over, she immediately started to scold: "You jinx! Using so much detergent for just a few pieces of clothing, making the floor all wet. Are you tired of living lavishly or trying to get us killed?"

Being scolded by the old lady, Lu Yuer then realized the area around the basin was all wet. The floor was cement, polished to a shine, and indeed it would be slippery when water fell on it. She hurriedly apologized and said she would clean it immediately.

Only then did the old lady turn away while muttering curses under her breath. After hearing such unpleasant words countless times, they no longer affected her...

"Grandma..."

It must be a hallucination, sigh. If she stayed in this family any longer, she might really go mad. But if not here, where else could she go?

"Grandma..."

Being hugged tightly by a little person calling out sweetly, Lu Yuer was stunned for quite a while before she believed it wasn’t a dream. It was really her granddaughter who had come!