CHAPTER 437: CHAPTER 463: TURNING THE TABLES

Because Zheng Lijuan and Sun Chan had a good relationship, the four of them left with laughter and conversation.

Meanwhile, on Ai Mei’s side, shortly after Gu Junming and the others left, Liu Gang rushed in frantically. He dashed in without any poise and hugged his wife tightly.

His voice was full of grief: "It’s all my fault! Don’t be upset, I’m sorry!"

Ai Mei said coldly, "Your acting is useless now. I’m going to find your superiors and tell them everything you’ve done. How you bullied me—I won’t hide anything. I know you’re trying to force me to divorce, find someone better? Dream on. I’m going to make sure you lose everything." Her head was wrapped in gauze, and her paper-white face carried a mocking smile, her voice floating: "I’m just not going to divorce you. I won’t agree even if I die. The leaders won’t ignore me being beaten so badly."

Liu Gang cursed inwardly for a long time. This woman had him cornered!

But right now, the most critical thing was not to let her tell the leaders.

Liu Gang grabbed Ai Mei’s hand, but she shook it off.

Even a clay figurine has a temper, and Ai Mei was genuinely furious this time.

Liu Gang straightforwardly slapped himself: "Sorry, I really went too far. I feel like I’m worse than an animal, how could I do such a thing? I know you’re mad at me, and I deserve to be scolded. You can do anything you want, as long as you’re not angry anymore!"

She looked indifferently at her husband: "You want me not to tell, but once things calm down, you’ll still continue to hit me."

"No!" He raised his hand and said, "I swear, I’ll absolutely never do it again! If I ever do, may I never be able to stay in the military again, and go back to farming!"

Ai Mei knew her husband valued his work in the military the most. So she somewhat believed him, and she didn’t actually want to divorce him either; she just wanted to scare him a bit to be more honest. So she softened, and Liu Gang noticed, hurriedly saying more sweet words to make her happy.

"I’ll definitely treat you well from now on. We’ll live a good life, find a doctor and get some medicine, try to have a child soon, and then I won’t ask for anything more."

His words hit Ai Mei’s heart, and she nodded: "Alright, as long as you don’t talk about divorce again, I’ll forgive you. But if you hit me again..."

Liu Gang sighed with relief and continued, "You acted foolishly this time! That Gu Junming seems decent, but he’s actually scheming. He’s just afraid my status will overshadow his promotion, so he’s using this matter to suppress me."

Ai Mei was taken aback: "Couldn’t be!" She hadn’t thought about the deeper issues, feeling thoroughly surprised.

Liu Gang sighed: "If not for being deliberately suppressed, why would I have received no reward after the flood rescue? You, a woman, don’t understand these things. He’s always hoping for me to mess up, and you handed him the opportunity proactively! I really don’t know how to say you."

"Impossible, they care about me very much..."

"There’s a saying, ’to know a person’s face but not their heart.’ Can you easily know what’s on someone’s mind? They only deceive people like you! It’s complicated inside, otherwise, why would they help someone they don’t know well? If I get taken down, Gu Junming will be pleased, with no rival for his future promotion." Liu Gang laughed coldly, feeling very annoyed.

He refused to admit he envied Gu Junming, instead thinking Gu Junming was intentionally harming him.

Ai Mei, being the kind of person who put her husband on a pedestal, didn’t actually want to divorce. So hearing him say this, it seemed very reasonable to her. No wonder Gu Junming kept offering to talk to the leaders for help; she realized she had misunderstood!

"Tell me, what should I do? I can’t let him harm you!"

Liu Gang said, "Don’t admit to those things. If someone entices you to say I beat you, don’t acknowledge it."

"I understand. I’ll listen to you, but with my support, you mustn’t treat me poorly."

"Don’t worry, I understand this very well. I see how good you are to me." Liu Gang held his wife close in his arms, so she wouldn’t keep staring at his face. Pretending was exhausting too.

After returning home, Gu Junming and Sun Chan tidied up and lay down on the bed together, but Sun Chan remained sullen. Gu Junming asked what was wrong.

"Is it because you haven’t done the illustration? Missing a day doesn’t matter, don’t stress."

Sun Chan shook her head: "It’s nothing really. I always feel Ai Mei might not tell the truth. She wants to hold onto the marriage, so she won’t speak badly about her husband. Liu Gang says a few words and convinces her, then she’ll turn around and side with Liu Gang, and we’ll be the fools."

It’s not like she hadn’t done this before? Zheng Lijuan just said the same thing earlier.

Gu Junming said, "But I can’t just do nothing."

"I’m just afraid that even if you do something, she won’t thank you. So you have to be methodical. We mustn’t let go of the troublesome heart. Moreover, Ai Mei’s words imply she doesn’t want a divorce, so don’t act foolishly."

"Okay. Let me think about it." Gu Junming held his wife’s hand, thinking over Sun Chan’s words for a long time, feeling quite displeased.

Liu Gang dared to bully people just because his wife wouldn’t dare to report him, it was truly excessive, simply disgracing the military!

Sun Chan yawned, leaned against him, and fell asleep.

Gu Junming kissed Sun Chan and thought about what to say tomorrow. He doesn’t scheme against others, but he can’t let himself be schemed either.

The next day, Gu Junming spoke to the leaders about the matter; after all, blood had been drawn, and the courtyard was buzzing with gossip.

He didn’t mention Liu Gang hitting anyone, but he talked about safety issues with the furniture in the housing, saying some men don’t care about their wives enough. If you cared, could you let her get hurt?

Unfortunately, Ai Mei didn’t know, she thought they had discussed it the previous night. When Gu Junming talked to the leaders, she always being beaten came up. So when the leaders visited, she started crying.

"Actually, my husband didn’t hit me! We were just moving stuff and accidentally fell, but Gu Junming set us up, saying I was beaten and telling me to tell the leaders. But my husband is very good, there’s absolutely nothing like that! My husband is very capable, you can’t discredit him over this, Gu Junming is malicious. You cannot ignore this!"

The leaders all looked at each other with disbelief, staring at her.

Ai Mei rambled on about their good relationship, slandering Gu Junming as deceitful and vile.