“My Ah Wu has a simple temper and is not suitable for a life that is too complicated. Lindong, you are a good child. If you have Ah Wu in your heart, just let her go.”
From the father’s standpoint, Jiang Baozong naturally felt that his daughter was good at everything, but others might not think so. Because his daughter had such a problem, even people like the Lin family looked down upon her, let alone the Duke’s Mansion.
That family asked Huo Lindong to return to inherit the title. Would they allow the future head clan’s wife to be a fool?
Jiang Baozong did not believe that Huo Lindong could protect Ah Wu.
Under this questioning, Huo Lindong fell silent, and even Sister Diao and Huo An were too embarrassed to speak for him.
“I can guarantee it.”
After a while, Huo Lindong suddenly spoke, with a very firm tone.
“Back then, I was framed by my father’s main wife and expelled for trying to kill my younger brother. People like the Xiao family value their heirs very much. Even if I really commited such a crime, my life would be spared and would only be sent to a certain villa of the Xiao family to be guarded. But because my father’s main wife’s family was very powerful at that time, I was directly removed from the family’s list. It was my biological father who found my uncle because of the past kindness with my mother and sent me to Ping Village.”
The more critical the moment, the clearer Huo Lindong’s thinking became. He began to analyze all the clues he could figure out now, trying to prove that he was capable of taking care of Ah Wu.
“In this case, even if my younger brother died, my grandfather and others should not take me back because they should understand that I have a rebellious nature in my life, and it is impossible to accept their renewed kindness after such an experience.”
The current Duke, Huo Lindong’s biological father, is in his prime. He could continue to have children to have another son. There were many maids in the Duke’s mansion who wanted to crawl into his bed. It made no sense that as soon as his younger brother left, he sent someone to pick him up.
Huo Lindong was not so narcissistic that he thought his grandfather still had an old affection for him. If that man really had intentions, he would not have allowed that woman to drive him out of the Xiao family when he was seriously ill and about to die.
“The attitude of the steward didn’t seem to be deceptive. The only possibility now is that something happened to my biological father. He may be dying, or there may be some problem that prevented him from regenerating.”
Only under this circumstance could the Xiao family think of him, as the only surviving heir.
In this way, this was his confidence. As long as those people didn’t want to see the bloodline of the Xiao family cut off on him, they had to hold their noses and accept several conditions he proposed.
When his wings are full, who can touch the people he cares about?
The current head of the Xiao family, Huo Lindong’s grandfather, only had one son. He also had two younger brothers who were born from concubines. Back then, the three brothers had fallen out with each other over the title.
It was impossible for the head of the Xiao family to watch his line of heirs being cut off and having to adopt the children of his two younger brothers. This was more uncomfortable for him than killing himself.
Jiang Baozong was somewhat convinced. If he thought about it carefully, it would not be good for Ah Wu’s reputation if the two children reconciled now. Especially after Huo Lindong left, the news that Ah Wu had become an abandoned wife would spread throughout the village.
They would not have thought that it was him who initiated the divorce. They would only think that Huo Lindong disliked Ah Wu after regaining his identity, so he abandoned her.
By that time, Ah Wu’s reputation was ruined. Who would dare to marry a woman who had once married the grandson of a Duke?
Jiang Baozong had a headache, but he had to compromise.
The final result of the discussion was that Jiang Baozong and the Diao family would follow Huo Lindong back to the Xiao family.
Jiang Baozong had made up his mind. If Huo Lindong couldn’t protect Ah Wu, or if Ah Wu was wronged in the Xiao family, he immediately reconciled the two children, and the worst he could do was move with his daughter to another place.
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Something like that happened during the day. Many people were waiting to see the Jiang family’s jokes. Some people lamented Jiang Baozong’s bad attitude and why he chose such a husband for his daughter again and again.
No one thought that Huo Lindong would leave with Jiang Wu, so everyone was slapped in the face early the next morning.
Not only did Huo Lindong not abandon his stupid wife as everyone thought, but he also took his father-in-law with him when he left.
“If I had known that the poor guy in the Diao family was born like that, I should have married my Erya to him.”
“The Jiang family is really lucky. The daughter no one wanted actually married the grandson of the Duke. In the future, won’t Ah Wu of the Jiang family be the wife of the Duke?”
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