Chapter 630: Chapter 232: A Clean Break

The whole family kowtowed and greeted one another. Just as they were about to exchange pleasantries, a commotion came from the door.

A servant came over and reported, "Old Master, the people from Court Chengyi Mansion are here."

The old lady glared angrily and said, "How dare they still come to our door? Do they really think our family are pushovers? Shiling, have someone beat them out."

Xu Shiling said, "Don’t worry, Mother. I’ll ask who has come first."

"What is there to ask? Court Chengyi Mansion only has those three people now. It’s either Yan Cheng, his mother, or at the very least, his grandmother. I don’t want to see anyone from their family."

Xu Shiling looked at the servant. The servant shrank his neck and said, "First Madam, the old madam, and Mr. Chengyi of Court Chengyi Mansion have all arrived."

The old lady scoffed softly, "Even if they brought the Queen Mother here, I still won’t see them!"

Thinking of the detailed account of last night’s events her daughter had told her at the relay station, the old lady slammed the teacup in her hand onto the table.

"That Yan Cheng knows how to swim! Although his swimming skills aren’t great, he wouldn’t drown in the water! Suying is his fiancée and went out at his invitation. He knew Suying’s life was in danger, yet he only cared about escaping himself and abandoned her. Our family and theirs cut ties twenty years ago. In the past, they couldn’t enter our doors, and in the future, they don’t need to either. Our two families are making a clean break and will never interact again!"

Speaking of this matter, the old lady was still filled with deep hatred. She agonized over how she and her husband had misjudged his character, and she hated Yan Cheng for being hypocritical and deceitful, caring only about his own life and completely ignoring his fiancée. He wasn’t even human; he was worse than a beast!

The old lady said with disgust, "From now on, at Capital City banquets, if I am there, they won’t be, and if they are there, I won’t be. Mrs. Guo, spread this word out. We’ll do things this way from now on."

Mrs. Guo agreed and coaxed the old lady a bit, but she wouldn’t listen at all. Whenever she thought of the suffering her daughter had endured for over twenty years, she felt so distressed that she wanted to shed tears. The rest of the family didn’t take this interruption to heart, letting the servant go and pass the message.

Outside the Xu family’s gate, many commoners were standing around. Servants from Princess Longyu’s home also poked their heads out, keeping an eye on the commotion here.

Yan Cheng’s mother, who was also the old madam of Court Chengyi Mansion, Mrs. Bai, felt like she was on pins and needles. She tugged at her left sleeve and tucked in her handkerchief on the right, perfectly displaying what it meant to be utterly distracted and anxious. From the corner of her eye, she noticed that the crowd of onlookers was growing larger. Even worse, some commoners boldly edged closer.

Unable to bear it any longer, Mrs. Bai coughed softly and said to First Madam of the mansion, "Mother, let Cheng’er get up. He is an official. What will people say if word gets out that he is kneeling at someone else’s door like this!"

First Madam of Court Chengyi Mansion, who was Yan Cheng’s biological grandmother, was already in her sixties this year, and her health was failing. Just a few days after Xu Su Ying’s fate became unknown, the old Mr. Chengyi passed away, leaving behind this mess.

First Madam had to deal with the Xu family, raise her useless son, and educate her grandson. On top of that, she had to pressure her daughter-in-law to send Third Ms. Bai away... Every single one of these tasks was no easy feat for a widowed old woman. First Madam’s health had broken down during that grueling period, yet she had endured through all these years of hardship.

However, when she woke up this morning and heard the servants gossiping—learning that her grandson actually knew how to swim a little but had left Xu Su Ying to die—she spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot. Upon waking up, she ignored the servants’ dissuasion and insisted on taking her daughter-in-law and grandson out of the house. The weather was so cold that one’s breath turned to ice, but it could not compare to the coldness in First Madam’s heart. Her aged face was turned toward the main gate of Xu Mansion, quietly waiting for any possible movement from inside.

"Cheng’er made a mistake. What is wrong with him bearing the deserved consequences?" First Madam’s aged voice enunciated every word.

"How is it a mistake? In such a life-threatening situation, isn’t it human nature to flee? It was an undercurrent; anyone who fell in would die. Cheng’er is also human. If he hadn’t run fast enough, we would have been crying for the past twenty years too."

First Madam struck her walking stick fiercely against the ground. "I would rather mourn my grandson at every seasonal festival than have him be a coward, a wimp! But he didn’t grow up right. He ruined his character, and I have accepted that. However, he absolutely shouldn’t have hidden this matter from everyone, and he especially shouldn’t have claimed to ’only have one wife in this lifetime’ while messing around with Third Ms. Bai."

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