This was the darkest day in the sixteen-year life of Su family maid Cheng Xiaohe.

In your free time when you don’t have to work.

She often heard from the little sisters who worked together in the Su Mansion that the casino in the east of the city was a cannibalistic place.

Sister Zhang, who is responsible for washing the clothes in the house, has a younger brother who is addicted to gambling.

He lost all his father and mother's coffin book at the casino and couldn't even keep his pants.

In the dead of winter, I was thrown into the snow naked, so I had to pick up a rotten vegetable leaf to cover my embroidery needle, and trotted home.

But Cheng Xiaohe never expected that for the first time in her life, she would lose to the notorious eldest son of the Su family in such an exciting game.

Her life...has become gloomy...

I heard that those poor girls whose innocence was taken away by rich young men did not end well.

The luckier ones were kept as concubines, or became the maidservants with the lowest status, while the unlucky ones were kicked out of the house after getting tired of playing with them, and were cast aside by their neighbors in the village.

well!

I just hope that the young master can have some conscience afterwards and not snatch her panties away in the cold winter and drive her out of the Su Mansion...

I, Cheng Xiaohe, it’s so difficult!

Snap!

"Ouch!"

The little maid covered the back of her head and turned around to glare angrily at Su Huai who had just given her a blow of faith.

"What are you thinking about? I can be in a daze while walking, and I'm not afraid of falling into a ditch while walking."

"Woo..."

"Master, my mother said that it is wrong to hit women. Only scum would hit women casually."

"Your mother lied to you. In fact, she was beaten by your father a lot, and she was beaten and screamed behind closed doors."

"How is that possible!"

"How is it impossible? Think about it carefully. When your parents were alone in the room when you were a child, you never heard any special noises?"

"..."

Cheng Xiaohe was stunned immediately. Having said that, she did often hear her mother's weak cries when she was a child, especially in the middle of the night.

Good guy, this scumbag is actually my biological father?

Beat my mother every night behind closed doors?

But why did her mother never tell her about this matter, but instead became more and more tender towards her father?

Cheng Xiaohe felt that his brain was going to be broken.

Su Huai pulled the corner of her mouth, reached out and patted the little girl's head, and pinched her baby-fat face.

"Okay, your mission is now complete. I'll just go on my own."

"Go back to the yard and wash yourself up and wait for the master's favor."

"oh……"

Watching Cheng Xiaohe slowly disappear around the corner of the house with his head lowered like a little quail.

Su Huai gently exhaled a breath, flicked his sleeves coquettishly, and stepped onto the bluestone path that symbolized the corner of fate.

Crunch——

The meeting hall of the Su Mansion has a history as old as the Su family's ancestral temple. The old wooden door has experienced hundreds of years of wind and frost, and is still suffering hardships that it should not have to endure at its age.

What he saw first was a long-haired girl wearing a moon-white dress, followed by a boy with an upright body, and an old man who seemed to have a bulging disc around his waist.

well!

It’s not his fault that he waited so long for the ring in his first life. The script for breaking off the engagement is so similar to the Xiao Huohuo who shouted “Thirty Years of Hedong”...

Looking past the fiancée who had canceled his eight marriages, Su Huai then looked at the packed house of elders of the Su family.

Finally, his eyes rested on the middle-aged man staring at him at the top of the meeting hall.

"What are you looking at!?"

"?"

"What! Are you still looking at me?"

"Look at me again and I'll cut you!"

A few blue veins slowly bulged on Su Zhengheng's forehead.

He was regretting his impulse again that night eighteen years ago.

I regretted that I didn't brake in time and stuck this evil beast against the wall while he was still a cell.

"You traitor! Kneel down!"

"Holy crap! If you ask me to kneel down, I'll do it. Wouldn't that make me lose face?"

With a snap, the desk next to the main table was shattered into pieces.

"Bad beast! Are you tired of living!?"

The middle-aged man at the head stood up, his hands trembling slightly with anger, and his spiritual power seemed to be gushing out.

Su Huai curled her lips, but still stood upright.

Su Zhengheng, once the number one genius in Black Iron City, now the head of the Su family, and the nominal father of Su Huai.

Ever since Su Huai was born, he had not looked down upon his eldest son who could not cultivate, because he was a waste without spiritual roots and had lost his face.

He even proposed several times to depose this good-for-nothing son as the family heir and replace him with Su Huai's half-brother.

But no matter what, the old man of the Su family liked this naughty and mischievous grandson, and he regarded the eldest son inheritance system as more important than anything else.

Other people's fathers are always mean-spirited and mean-spirited, but Su Zhengheng is a man who behaves exactly the same on the outside. He wishes that this rebellious son who had disgraced himself would die outside as soon as possible.

And this is also the reason why Su Huai could only go on the road alone in his previous lives, determined to make a name for himself outside.

……………………

The three people, Situ Zhiruo and others, who came to break off the engagement, were sitting in the guest seats and watched with great interest this scene of a loving father and a filial son.

The gray-haired second elder of the Su family next to the main seat sighed, and raised his hand to hold the patriarch Su Zhengheng's shoulder.

"Zhengheng, let's discuss other matters in private. Don't let outsiders see my Su family's jokes."

"Ha!? A joke? What kind of joke are you afraid of!"

"My Su family's face has long been disgraced by this evil beast!"

Su Zhengheng glanced at Su Huai coldly, sat down again and simply closed his eyes, out of sight and out of mind.

The second elder was a little tired, so he could only take over the work that belonged to Su Zhengheng and looked at the young master who looked careless.

"Su Huai, let me introduce you."

"The three people over there are guests from the Situ family."

"As for their purpose of coming..."

Situ Zhiruo, who had been sitting quietly, stood up, first saluted in the direction of Su Zhengheng and the second elder, and then turned back to look at Su Huai:

"I visited the Su family today to discuss the marriage contract my grandfather made with Mrs. Su eighteen years ago."

Su Huai glanced at the elders of the Su family who were sitting in high positions, and sighed inaudibly.

Although this was not the first time, they were directly forced to break off their engagement by a junior, and suffered such humiliating behavior for the family, but there was no trace of anger in the eyes of these old people.

Su Huai would never believe it if they confiscated any benefits.

Such a family has long lost the unity and cohesion it had in its heyday.

Su Huai's mother died young. Now the people in the Su family who really regard him as the young master of the Su family are probably only the old man of the Su family and some servants working in the family.

As for this divorce farce...

As a party involved, what he received was never a discussion, but a notification that a conclusion had been reached.

It's not that the marriage cannot be canceled, and he can keep silent about the compensation given by the Situ family, but at least he should be given basic respect as the person involved.

There really isn’t much left to miss in this so-called home...

He withdrew his gaze and looked into Situ Zhiruo's cold eyes, with a slight hint of teasing at the corner of his mouth:

"Oh? Engagement?"

"Can't wait to marry me?"

"Still..."

"You finally realized that you are not good enough for me?"

As soon as these words came out, the entire meeting hall fell silent instantly, and you could hear a pin drop.
To be continued...