He steadied himself and stubbornly said, "Brother, I'm just looking out for our family, right? Just look at the kind of Sister-in-law you've chosen!"
"Just a few days ago we were arguing, and now you're flipping tables again. If Sister-in-law keeps this up, what will the neighbors think of us?"
"We need a obedient daughter-in-law in our family so that everyone can live in harmony!"
"Brother, I can understand being afraid of your wife, but how can you be so spineless?"
Hearing Zhang Heng's words made my heart sink to the bottom.
No wonder Zhang Heng had been indifferent to me.
It turned out he never intended to live a good life from the start!
I rushed over and slapped Zhang Heng hard. "You're disgusting!"
My mother-in-law screamed, "You've gone too far! How dare you hit my son!"
She grabbed a plastic stool nearby and hurled it at me.
Sister-in-law stepped in front of me and shattered the plastic stool with a punch.
My mother-in-law was so frightened that she stumbled backward and fell to the ground, crying uncontrollably.
"Oh my goodness! What kind of fate is this? It's one thing for Eldest Daughter-in-law to bully me, but now Second Sister-in-law is doing it too!"
"My life is so miserable!"
Sister-in-law squatted down beside her, sobbing, "Brother, look at your wife! She's still acting like a tyrant in our home."
"Are you just going to let her bully our mother like this, as the eldest son?"
Sister-in-law looked at her husband.
He released Zhang Heng and walked over to his mother, reaching out to support her.
She shrugged off his hand. "Don't touch me! I know you're siding with your Sister-in-law!"
With a sigh, he withdrew his hand. "Mom, that's not right. Just a few days ago, you asked my Sister-in-law for help and sent Xiao Qiu to work at her company."
"Xiao Qiu just started at the company the day before yesterday, and now she’s turning her back on us?"
Sister-in-law stammered, "Brother, that's a different matter."
He sighed again. "Mom, Xiao Qiu is right; it is a different matter. But my Sister-in-law has nothing to say to you except when it comes to business."
"You can insult my Sister-in-law all you want; I don't care. But asking me to divorce her? That's impossible."
He turned to Sister-in-law, his gaze firm. "I will always stand by my Sister-in-law."
As soon as he finished speaking, their mother lunged at him with the broken pieces of a bowl from the floor.
"How could you do this, Zhang Peng! I've worked hard for you all my life, and in the end, you side with outsiders against me?"
"Oh, woe is me!"
The porcelain shard pressed against his forehead, instantly drawing blood.
Blood trickled down his cheek.
A faint metallic scent filled the air.
I hurriedly pulled out the first aid kit. "Brother, sit down! Let me take care of your wound!"
He sat on a plastic stool nearby, his gaze fixed on me. "Jingjing, I'm sorry. My family has caused you trouble."
I shook my head. "Brother, don't say that."
He forced a bitter smile. "Jingjing, the situation at home is quite complicated."
"When I was young, my parents had to rely on me, the eldest, to earn money for the family because they were busy with my sister's birth. I was still young, but I learned how to work in the fields."
"Later, I had an accident and was hanging by a thread. The doctor said I needed money for surgery and a blood transfusion."
"Do you know what my parents said?"
He scoffed. "They told me that as the eldest son, even if I died, I couldn't be a burden to them."
"In the end, it wasn't my parents who saved me, nor was it Zhang Heng or Zhang Qiu. It was my sister-in-law, Ma Yuan."
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