Chapter 484: I Want a Divorce
Qin Shanshan’s eyes were already red.
"Su Dan, I know you must have used some of it. But even if you spent a few hundred, you have to give the rest back to me! That’s what we have to build our lives on. We can’t afford to lose it, this is no joke."
Su Dan shook his head. "I really didn’t take it."
Qin Shanshan clenched her jaw. "Fine. Let’s say you splurged and spent a thousand. There should still be two thousand left. Give me the remaining two thousand!"
Su Dan just shook his head again.
Qin Shanshan bit her lip so hard it started to bleed. Her eyes were red, her hair was a mess, and she looked like she wanted to eat Su Dan alive.
"What about one thousand then? There has to be at least one thousand left, right?"
Seeing Su Dan still deny it, Qin Shanshan felt she was about to explode.
"Not even a thousand? Then what about a few hundred? How many hundred are left?"
Seeing her expression, Su Dan felt a chill run down his spine. He shook his head frantically. "I really didn’t take it, Shanshan. Don’t accuse me wrongly, I really didn’t!"
"You didn’t take it, you didn’t take it... Did you spend all three thousand yuan? You spent it all?"
Qin Shanshan trembled all over and slapped Su Dan hard across the face.
"Three thousand, Su Dan! Three thousand! You actually spent it all! How do you have the face to come back? You should have just died out there! What did you come back for?!"
She gasped for breath like a caged beast.
"I knew I shouldn’t have married you. I must have been possessed to marry you and even give you money to spend."
"I was blind, I was so blind! I’m going to kill you! I’d rather be a widow than have a husband like you! I’m going to kill you!"
At that moment, Qin Shanshan meant every word.
If not for the brief period of hopeful affection between them recently, she might not have been this furious. But the crushing disappointment and despair that followed that hope, coupled with the feelings she had developed for Su Dan, only amplified the shock she felt now.
With bloodshot eyes, Qin Shanshan started looking for something she could use to kill Su Dan.
Su Dan watched her, terrified.
"Shanshan, it really wasn’t me! Don’t blame me, it really wasn’t! You’re carrying my son in your belly, you can’t get so worked up!"
It would have been better if Su Dan hadn’t mentioned the baby. The moment he did, Qin Shanshan grew even more enraged. Unable to find a weapon, she lunged forward and started strangling him.
"You dare mention the baby? If it weren’t for this child, I never would have married you! I’m going to kill you today!"
Su Dan desperately grabbed Qin Shanshan’s hands. "Shanshan, don’t be angry! I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have taken the money. I admit it, I was wrong, I was wrong..."
Su Dan slid to his knees in front of Qin Shanshan, his face a mess of tears and snot.
"I just meant to scare you. I just wanted to make some more money and impress you, but who knew..."
The truth was, Su Dan was just mad that Qin Shanshan wouldn’t give him money. So when he woke up from his drunken stupor and saw she wasn’t there, he took the money and ran.
He had a grand plan. He went straight to the city, intending to start a big business.
But he got off to a bad start and was immediately scammed out of two thousand yuan.
Terrified, he then let someone else talk him into using money to make money, hoping to win back what he’d lost. In the end, he was led to a casino.
From there, there was no turning back. Forget winning back the two thousand—the remaining one thousand was gone too.
In just a few short days, Su Dan had blown all three thousand yuan. He barely managed to hang on to a camera in the end.
Originally, Su Dan had planned to hide it from Qin Shanshan and deny it to his death, then find a way to earn the money back later. Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t keep up the lie.
Listening to Su Dan’s confession, Qin Shanshan’s vision went black, and she fainted.
When she woke up and saw Su Dan by the bed, she slapped him without a second thought.
For the next two days, the only thing Qin Shanshan did was hit Su Dan. She looked at him as if he were her sworn enemy, without a trace of warmth.
Su Dan knew he was wrong, so he endured it all and said many placating words, but Qin Shanshan’s attitude toward him didn’t change. She wouldn’t even let him near her anymore.
Miao Fenghua’s heart ached watching this. On the third day, after seeing Qin Shanshan hit Su Dan again, she couldn’t hold back her anger.
"So what if Dan Dan spent the money? He already knows he was wrong. And you keep hitting him, you heartless woman."
"That was my money!" Qin Shanshan’s simmering anger instantly flared up.
"What ’your money’? You belong to our Su Family, so that money belongs to Dan Dan. You’re not allowed to hit him again."
Miao Fenghua retorted immediately.
"Pah! So the money is yours and the person is yours? I spit on that!"
Qin Shanshan looked at the mother and son and sneered. "I want a divorce!"
Thanks to Su Li, Qin Shanshan had learned a new concept—divorce!
There was nothing wrong with getting a divorce. So what if she’d had a child? She could still find another man!
’Even with my eyes closed, I could find a better man than Su Dan!’
This was the thought that had consumed Qin Shanshan for the past two days—divorce!
If Su Li could get a divorce and find a good man like Wu Sheng, why couldn’t she?
’I won’t just find another man, I’ll find one even better than Wu Sheng!’
Before, she had given up hope and tried to make a good life for her child’s sake. But what was the result?
It was one thing for him to be useless, but he had also lost all her money. Every time she thought of her four thousand yuan, Qin Shanshan’s heart bled!
"I’m done! I can’t live with you mother and son anymore. I want a divorce!"
Qin Shanshan got out of bed and started packing her things.
Su Dan and Miao Fenghua were shocked.
"No!" He couldn’t lose the wife he’d worked so hard to marry just like that.
’What was the point of enduring all this for the past two days? It was all to beg for Qin Shanshan’s forgiveness. How could they get a divorce?!’
"No!" Miao Fenghua also objected, her eyes fixed on Qin Shanshan’s stomach.
She wasn’t satisfied with Qin Shanshan as a daughter-in-law, but her grandson... her grandson was still in that belly!
"You think you can stop me just by saying no? I want a divorce! And let me tell you, Su Dan, don’t think you’ll have it easy after the divorce. You have to pay me back my four thousand yuan, every last cent!"
"No, I don’t want a divorce! Who will you go to if we divorce?" ’Could it be that she can’t forget that Tang Yuanxiao guy and wants to find him?’
With that thought, Su Dan lunged forward from his kneeling position to grab Qin Shanshan’s luggage, trying to stop her from leaving.
But as he lunged, he knocked over the things Qin Shanshan had been packing.
This slip-up was a disaster.
The wooden box that Qin Shanshan had always treasured, which she never even let Su Dan touch, fell to the floor, and its contents spilled out.
Inside the box, at a rough glance, was a hundred or two hundred yuan in cash, two silver bracelets, and other miscellaneous important items.
None of that was the problem. It was normal for Qin Shanshan to have some personal savings. The problem was the photograph that was also inside.
A photograph... of Tang Yuanxiao.
It was a photo of Tang Yuanxiao that Qin Shanshan had secretly kept. She used to take it out and look at it whenever she had free time, treasuring it.
By now, Qin Shanshan’s love for Tang Yuanxiao had turned to hate, but out of habit, she still kept the photo in its usual hiding place.
The moment Tang Yuanxiao’s photo appeared, Qin Shanshan, Su Dan, and Miao Fenghua all froze for an instant.
Finally, Qin Shanshan broke the silence.
She reflexively reached for the photo to hide it, but this very action completely enraged Su Dan.
"Qin Shanshan! You unfaithful slut!"