After Su Qiao's reminder, she recalled their last conversation, but for a moment, she didn't know what to say.
"You... How can you be so stubborn? I'm doing this for your own good!"
"Leave the Zhang family, and you can live the life you want. You'll be free to go wherever you please, and you can pursue your own happiness. What's wrong with that?"
"A marriage without an emotional foundation won't be happy. A life without love is dull, tasteless, and painful. Why can't you understand that?"
Heh.
Pursue happiness?
Be free?
Don't make me laugh. If she left the Zhang family, the original owner could only go wander the streets.
She didn't even have a place to live. She could only starve, and might not even have a bite to eat.
Did this little girl think they were living in some future where marriage laws were fully developed?
After a divorce, could she simply receive compensation and alimony as a matter of course?
"No wonder my brother-in-law doesn't like you. You're so stubborn, so useless, and so backward-minded. Sooner or later, society will eliminate you, and everyone will despise you."
Su Ying kept berating her own older sister without pause, never once considering how her sister would live afterward or what kind of gossip she would face after the divorce.
"..."
There was no way to communicate with someone whose values were this twisted.
The moment the Second Young Master's divorce announcement was published, she wouldn't need to wait for society to eliminate her. Everyone would immediately scorn and mock her, turning her into a laughingstock.
The Second Concubine had actually come with her daughter, Su Ying, but because her feet had been bound since childhood, she walked much more slowly.
She happened to hear her daughter's final words,