Zhang Jie knocked on the door, then entered the room.

Upon entering, she saw Lin Wanqiu sprawled on the bed, sobbing loudly.

Although her face was covered by the blanket, the sound was still very loud.

Zhang Jie sat beside her, gently patting her back and softly said, "Wanqiu, what's wrong? Did he refuse to agree to the divorce?"

But Lin Wanqiu just shook her head, her bitterness unceasing.

It took a while for her emotions to slowly settle down.

"Wanqiu, talk to me, what's going on?"

Zhang Jie held her, asking reassuringly.

Lin Wanqiu was very conflicted, struggling within herself.

Zhang Jie didn't rush her and just quietly accompanied her.

Several minutes passed before Lin Wanqiu finally said, "He asked me to sleep with another man..."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jie was stunned for several seconds before she understood.

Then she immediately realized what Zhang Hao meant.

He wanted Lin Wanqiu to find a sperm donor!

To have a child with another man.

"Has he gone mad?" Zhang Jie cursed, "How can he have such a thought? And furthermore, isn't he bothered by it?"

After cursing, she realized that the two were already at the stage of getting a divorce.

Zhang Hao had made such a choice because he didn't want a divorce.

He would rather have his wife bear a child with another man than get a divorce.

From this perspective, he indeed loved Lin Wanqiu very much.

Otherwise, he couldn't have come to this point.

Zhang Jie's breathing became uneven as she said, "Then what did you say?"

She couldn't make a judgment just yet.

Having been neighbors with Lin Wanqiu for so many years, she had a good understanding of this couple.

She knew how much Lin Wanqiu loved Zhang Hao; perhaps, she really could accept it.

Lin Wanqiu bit her lip, her eyes filled with anger and disappointment, and retorted, "Do you know with whom he asked me to sleep?"

The first person that popped into Zhang Jie's mind was Wang Dahai, so she blurted out, "It isn't Dahai, is it?"

Lin Wanqiu paused for a moment, her cheeks reddened, and she shook her head, "No."

"Then who?" She really couldn't think of anyone.

Lin Wanqiu opened her mouth, wanting to speak several times, but each time the words reached her lips, she pulled them back.

Her reaction also caused Zhang Jie to gradually form some guesses.

"My father-in-law." When Lin Wanqiu said this relation, her body trembled slightly.

It was the physical reaction brought about by an extreme sense of humiliation.

Zhang Jie's mouth fell open, thinking to herself, as expected.

She had guessed it just moments ago.

And to her surprise, she had guessed right.

For a moment, she didn't know what to say.

Although this situation was scandalous and appalling to hear about,

the fact was, such things did happen.

Men who were unable to father children often sought their own brothers to be sperm donors.

If they had no brothers, then they resorted to their own father.

Of course, this depended on whether their wife could accept it.

Zhang Hao wanting to use his own father as a sperm donor meant that, no matter what, the child would carry his Zhang family's blood.

Zhang Jie felt nauseous just hearing about such degrading and nearly incestuous actions.

Even though she could emotionally understand why Zhang Hao was acting this way, it didn't mean she could support it.

Zhang Jie asked, "When you returned, were his parents there?"

"They were."

"What was their reaction?"

"They don't oppose it."

As Lin Wanqiu spoke, anger in her eyes was joined by a hint of fear.

When Zhang Hao first mentioned the idea to her, she noticed Zhang's father peeking at her.

Moreover, there was a look of excitement hidden in his surreptitious glances.

In that moment, she felt very afraid.

It was also the first time she felt that her father-in-law was such a stranger.

Before this incident, although her relationship with her in-laws was just average, she had thought they were kind-hearted elders.

But she never expected that they would agree to something so indecent.

And her father-in-law clearly harbored some thoughts about her.

The very thought of her elderly father-in-law's body making contact with hers made her feel unbearable disgust.

Mrs. Zhang asked again, "Did he tell you how? IVF? Or something else?"

Lin Wanqiu suddenly fell silent. After more than ten seconds, she said, "He asked me to go to bed with his father directly."

"Bastard!" Mrs. Zhang cursed openly, "He is such a bastard! How could he think of such a thing?"

In her view, even if it was a matter of sperm donation, it could be done through IVF.

Many men who cannot reproduce go to the hospital and use sperm from others for IVF.

Even if the child is not related by blood, it is still emotionally one's own, having been born from one's wife.

It was understandable that Zhang Hao could not accept a child of someone else's bloodline.

Using his own father's, could also be understood.

But even if you were to go that route, couldn't you use IVF?

Yet he insisted on conception in the most primitive manner.

This was simply not treating Lin Wanqiu like a normal woman.

No wonder Lin Wanqiu came back and cried in her room like that.

Anyone would feel aggrieved in her situation.

"Go and tell your father!" Mrs. Zhang said, "You absolutely cannot tolerate this, tell your father immediately."

But Lin Wanqiu shook her head, "It's already in the past."

Mrs. Zhang said, "Even if it's in the past, you have to tell him! If they can bully you like this today, they will find more ways to bully you in the future. Hasn't it dawned on you that he really doesn't want to divorce you? If you don't show some backbone now, maybe next time he will trick you into going home, and your father-in-law will force himself on you!"

"Then it's a fait accompli, and if you want to divorce, he'll threaten you with that. What will you do?"

Hearing Mrs. Zhang's words, Lin Wanqiu suddenly felt very panicked.

Moreover, what Mrs. Zhang said made a lot of sense.

It really could happen.

"But it's already very late…"

"Such a thing has happened, and you're still worried about the time?"

Mrs. Zhang was almost amused by her distress, but she understood that it was difficult to grasp the complex feelings of those directly involved if you weren't in their shoes.

As an observer, she could of course make all kinds of rational decisions.

But for the person concerned, the more people that knew, the more frightening it became.

After all, this was not something to be proud of.

"Dahai!" Mrs. Zhang suddenly yelled outside, Lin Wanqiu was terrified and quickly asked, "Why are you calling for him?"

Mrs. Zhang didn't explain.

Wang Dahai had been waiting outside and immediately came in when he heard the shout.

"Mrs. Zhang, what's the matter?"

"Do you know where Wanqiu's father's house is?"

"Yes."

"Go find him and ask him to come over here."

Wang Dahai glanced at his sister-in-law, saw she did not speak, nodded, "Okay."

He turned and left, wondering all the way what his sister-in-law had said to Mrs. Zhang.

Why did they even have to call Mr. Lin over?

Could it be something other than the matter of sperm donation?

After all, in his view, even if Zhang had raised the matter of sperm donation, his sister-in-law should not be this upset.

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