My Alleged Husband

Chapter 561: Chapter 540 Conversation (Part 2)

”Child, it was actually predestined that the relationship between the two of you would reach this point today. From the beginning, you were not suitable for each other; this is the reality I knew. I’ve always tried to stop you from being together because I knew that one day it would become a situation beyond control. I’ve always been in the middle trying to prevent you two from being together, but in the end, I didn’t expect that I still couldn’t separate you when that time came. I just felt that as long as the two of you could be happy, then this old man, suffering a bit of grievance, what does it matter? My son, whom I’ve painstakingly raised, can’t even consider, in the least, the intentions of his father. So why should I expect you, a daughter-in-law who hasn’t even entered our family, to be so thoroughly considerate of me? Actually, people often empathize with others. I know you mean well for me in all that you do, but have you thought about it? Everything that once was is no longer as it used to be. Everyone is slowly growing, and with growth, mindsets change too. When a person’s mindset changes to a certain extent, they will no longer be content with asking for nothing and wanting nothing. Instead, they will become greedy, and slowly, ambition will swell. Do you think, at that time, such a life is still what you want? Although I know I shouldn’t sow discord between you two or gossip, there are things in our hearts that we should remember, aren’t there? Many things aren’t so easily forgotten. How can anyone not have pain, not be tortured? You two have weathered so many storms together; do you really not have even the most basic trust in each other?”

”Dad, it’s not that I don’t want to trust each other, or that I don’t want to continue living, it’s that he has pushed me into a corner. Do you know? The time I’ve spent with him lately has nearly driven me to collapse. Night and day, I’ve been thinking about how to please her, how to talk to her, but what about her? She’s always finding ways to push me away until the day he finally got a divorce from me. Do you know? When I was in utter despair, that was the happiest time for him. How could I possibly live with someone like that? I know, no matter what, in the end, he is your biological son. No matter what mistakes he makes, perhaps in your eyes as a father, they are not so grave. But in my eyes as his wife, seeing that he could make such mistakes today, who can assure me he won’t do something tomorrow to break my heart? I don’t want to live with a man like that, nor can I live in such an environment. All I want is a calm and steady life, an ordinary life.”

”The moment he said I was with him for the money, I knew that there was no way for us to return to how we started. He has only ever hurt me. I loved him so much, so much that I didn’t care about anything, even willing to give up my life. But he believed I was with him merely for money, for benefits, for power, for fame. Do you know? If I wanted power, fame, benefits, money, then why would I have stayed with him? Honestly, and I don’t know if I should say this, but if I really wanted to leave him for those reasons, there are many men in the world richer and more capable than him. Why would I stick by him through thick and thin? Yet, in his eyes, all my efforts were merely to use him. With him seeing me this way, why should I keep forcing myself to stay by his side? In his eyes, I’m nothing. I’m just a pet, summoned or dismissed at will. All I wanted was a husband who could always be by my side. But in the end, what did he give me? Just thinking about how he wanted to send me away, to easily push me out of his life so he could live happily the life she wanted. Is this really so? Can he say he has no regrets at all in the end? But why should I leave him any room to regret? Since the decision was his to make, why should I forgive him just because he said a few words? That is absolutely impossible. A mistake made must be punished; this is a rule set by everyone. He could give up his lawfully-wedded wife for her so-called absurd principles. Why should I then stay by his side only to be hurt by him over and over again, to leave the family battered and bruised? Dad, I know you have always treated me as your own daughter, and it’s because of this, how could you bear to see me return to his side and suffer with him? Could you bear to see her hurt me all over again, ultimately to kick me out once more? You are a father, too; you should understand how distressed my parents’ souls in heaven would be. I too had parents who loved and cared for me, it’s just that my parents left me early. That only shows that it’s my misfortune, a calamity that I have to face in my life. Yet, I am not without parents. I don’t wish for them, after having left this world for so many years, to still shed tears over my affairs...”

”Is it really that there’s no possibility left between you two? Once husband and wife, why let the relationship become so terrible now? Isn’t it better to leave a way back for each other? Making the relationship too rigid might not be a good outcome for anyone in the end, right? Shouldn’t one forgive while one can?”

”No matter what you say, he still loves you in his heart; otherwise, he wouldn’t have come asking me to talk to you, right?”

”For me now, whether he loves me or not, I no longer care. His so-called love is just for show, nothing more. I can’t be a part of this, so I hope, Dad, that you can understand my difficult position. Since it has come to this, I have nothing more to say. If he’s already turned to you, then I know the road ahead will not be smooth sailing for me. I will never be with him again. The mistakes already made must be paid for over time, through actions. That’s all I have to say. If it’s not something important in the future, please don’t contact me because of him. I am still your good daughter-in-law, but I hope you will treat me as a daughter, not a daughter-in-law!”