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Xue Pingzhi's expression stiffened slightly, but he quickly concealed his emotions.

"If you've really made up your mind, then I'll write a divorce agreement, and you can take all your dowry with you."

He already had someone he liked; marrying the Xia woman was merely his father's dying wish.

Since Xia is willing to divorce, that's a good thing.

Xi Yao gave him a half-smile. "I hope to receive the divorce papers and my dowry at the same time. If I'm short even a copper coin, then I won't be polite."

"My Marquis Wuxin's mansion doesn't need your dowry." Xue Pingzhi's expression was somewhat unpleasant. "I will have someone send it to you as soon as possible."

After saying that, he turned and strode away.

Xi Yao shook her head as she watched his retreating figure.

Xue Pingzhi in this world is not a good person, but he is not a malicious one either.

Unfortunately, he didn't understand his sweetheart and his mother at all.

Old Madam Wang will not agree to a divorce.

Xi Yao slowly poured herself a glass of water and drank it, putting the matter out of her mind and turning her attention to figuring out how to deal with the poisons in Han Yunzhao's body.

The system has antidotes, but she wants to do something else.

the other side.

Madam Wang's courtyard.

"This is outrageous!"

Madam Wang smashed the teacup in her hand on the ground. The shards of porcelain that flew up grazed the back of the hand of the maid beside her, and she didn't dare to move.

"How can I, as the mother-in-law, not even be able to get my daughter-in-law to listen to me? She really is a merchant's daughter, with no manners at all."

"Madam, please calm down." The old woman bent down and patted her chest to help her catch her breath, saying, "Since you don't know the rules, Madam, you can teach you more. Madam Xia is young and needs your guidance."

Upon hearing this, Madam Wang turned her head to look at the nanny.

The two exchanged a glance, both understanding each other's meaning.

"You're right." Old Madam Wang slowly exhaled, a glint of shrewdness flashing in her eyes. "She's so young, and born into a merchant family. If she's not properly taught manners, it will be a disgrace to my Wuxin Marquis's mansion."

Besides, she grew up in that godforsaken border town and doesn't know how to make a living. Wouldn't it be a waste to have so much dowry in her hands?

At this point, Madam Wang finally smiled and said, "Then I, as her mother-in-law, will have to trouble myself to help her manage her dowry for the time being."

Have someone tell her to let me keep the key to the vault for now, and I'll give it to her later once she's learned how to use it.

"Yes, Madam, I'll go right away."

The old woman turned to leave and saw Xue Pingzhi at the door. She immediately bowed.

"Greetings, Lord Marquis."

"Pingzhi is here?" Old Madam Wang immediately sat up straight, her face beaming with joy. "Come in quickly, someone bring tea."

"Mother." Xue Pingzhi bowed to Madam Wang, then waved for the maid to leave. "Li Mama, you may leave as well. Don't go to Xia Shi's place either."

Li Mama hesitated for a moment, then looked at Old Madam Wang. Seeing her nod, she closed the door and left.

Once the room was empty, Xue Pingzhi frowned and looked at Old Madam Wang:

"Mother, Xia should handle her dowry as she sees fit; why should you interfere?"

Madam Wang's eyelids twitched, and she felt a slight pang of regret.

This son was taught too correctly by the old Marquis and doesn't understand the importance of gold and silver.

Despite the glamorous appearance of the Marquis of Wuxin's mansion, the financial problems behind the scenes are getting bigger and bigger.

The old Marquis was too rigid during his reign, which resulted in him not leaving behind much property.

If they relied solely on that meager salary to make ends meet, they simply couldn't support this entire family.

Madam Wang sighed inwardly, but showed no sign of it on her face.

"Pingzhi, your mother is doing this for your own good. The Xia family doesn't know how to run a business and is just sitting around doing nothing. What will happen to your children in the future?"

While my old bones can still move, I'll help you for as many years as I can.

I am your mother, and Xia's mother-in-law. Would I harm you?

"Don't worry, I'm just helping Xia manage her dowry. It will only increase; she won't suffer any losses."

Xue Pingzhi fell silent for a moment after listening.

He knew his mother meant well, wanting to help the Xia family, but...

"Mother, I am preparing to divorce Xia."

Madam Wang's expression changed drastically, and her voice rose sharply: "No! I don't agree!"

Xue Ping was taken aback, not expecting his mother to react so strongly. "Mother, this is a matter between your son and Xia Shi..."

"What do you mean, what's going on between you and her?" Old Madam Wang interrupted him coldly. "Marriage is never just a matter between the two of you."

Before your father passed away, he entrusted you to me and betrothed you to a woman from the Xia family. That was your father's last wish!

"Now that you want a divorce, how can you face your father's spirit in heaven?"

Xue Pingzhi frowned deeply. "Father only wanted me to marry a woman from the Xia family; he didn't say I couldn't divorce her. Besides, Xia and I were already..."

"What do you mean by 'it'?" Old Madam Wang slammed her hand on the table. "Pingzhi, you're confused! That Xia woman is so young, how long has she been married into our family?"

If you divorce her, what will outsiders say?

They'll say our Marquis Wuxin's household is cruel and ungrateful, unable to tolerate even a merchant's daughter!

"It's a divorce, not a separation," Xue Pingzhi corrected.

"Is there a difference?" Old Madam Wang sneered. "In the eyes of outsiders, whether it's a divorce or a reconciliation, Xia Shi was driven out of our Marquis's mansion."

Where could a woman go after leaving her husband's family?

Go back to the Xia family? A divorced woman returning home brings shame upon her own family.

She paused, her tone softening, her voice tinged with worry:

"Pingzhi, your mother knows you are suffering and that you don't want to marry her."

But things have already come to this point, we can't ruin that girl's life.

"If a woman gets divorced, people will gossip about her behind her back. Who would dare marry her in the future? Aren't you trying to drive her to her death?"

Xue Pingzhi's lips moved, but he couldn't utter a word for a moment.

He had never thought about it from this perspective.

In his view, Xia's initiative to propose a divorce must mean that she was willing.

He signed the divorce papers, returned all the dowry, and they were even. Wouldn't it be great if they could both live happily ever after?

But what my mother said...

"Mother," Xue Pingzhi said hesitantly, "Xia herself was willing; she mentioned it to me personally..."

"That's because she's immature!" Old Madam Wang immediately chimed in. "She's young and impulsive, and you actually believed what she said in a moment of anger?"

Instead of advising her, you, as her husband, are letting her do whatever she wants?

Later, when she regretted it, she had nowhere to turn to cry.

Xue Pingzhi's brows furrowed even more.

He felt that something was wrong with what his mother said, but he couldn't refute it for the time being.

Seeing her son hesitate, Madam Wang breathed a slight sigh of relief, but her expression grew even more somber.

"Pingzhi, your mother is not trying to stop you, but you need to think more about Xia Shi's sake regarding this matter."

She married into our family, so she's one of us. We can't do anything that will make people gossip about us.

After saying that, she picked up her teacup, took a sip, and glanced at her son's expression out of the corner of her eye.

Just then, Xue Pingzhi raised his head, his tone more resolute than before:

"Mother, I understand your good intentions, but I have thought this through."