Chapter 100: I Won't Endure It Any Longer

Noon.

After lunch, Lin Shengli was about to take a break when Xu Damao walked in.

"Damao, why the downcast look?"

Xu Damao let out a long sigh and said:

"Shengli, I... I... I went to the hospital for a check‑up."

Lin Shengli: "Oh, so it seems the problem really lies with you?"

Seeing Xu Damao's expression, Lin Shengli of course guessed it.

Moreover, with his god‑vision, he already knew that Xu Damao couldn't father children.

Suddenly.

Xu Damao gritted his teeth and said:

"An unavenged grievance makes one no gentleman."

Lin Shengli: "Has sister‑in‑law found out?"

Xu Damao: "No, I don't even know how to tell her."

"I don't dare to say either."

"If I say it, I'm afraid she'll divorce me."

Lin Shengli: "Damao, about this, I think you'd better talk properly with sister‑in‑law."

"The sooner the better."

"Because you can't wrap fire in paper."

"The longer you delay, the more she'll blame you."

"If she discovers on her own that you can't have children, I think your marriage will be doomed."

"Whether you tell her proactively or she learns passively, the nature is completely different."

Xu Damao thought for a moment and asked:

"If I tell her and she insists on divorcing me, what should I do?"

Lin Shengli: "Sweet talk and coaxing."

"I don't think that will happen."

Xu Damao thought again and said:

"Alright, I know what to do now."

"Then I won't bother you; I'll be going now."

Back home, Lou Xiao'e was sitting at the table, shelling sunflower seeds.

"Damao, what's wrong?"

Seeing Xu Damao's mood off, Lou Xiao'e asked concernedly.

"Xiao'e, I, I......"

Xu Damao sat opposite Lou Xiao'e, looking at her, about to speak but stopped.

"What's the matter? Just say it," Lou Xiao'e smiled and said.

Suddenly.

Xu Damao stood up.

"Thump"—he knelt before Lou Xiao'e.

Lou Xiao'e jumped in fright, quickly stood up and asked:

"Damao, what are you doing?"

"No, didn't you do something that wronged me?"

She pointed at Xu Damao and shouted:

"Xu Damao, I'm warning you first."

"If you dare to do something that wrongs me, I will never let you off."

"I will definitely divorce you."

Upon hearing that, Xu Damao couldn't help but shiver all over.

Then he forced a faint smile, stood up, pretended to be relaxed, and said:

"Where were you thinking? Seriously."

"Having you is enough; would I still think of other women?"

At that point, he grabbed Lou Xiao'e's hand, looked deeply into her eyes, and said softly:

"Xiao'e, I've always wanted to thank you."

"You have such good qualities, married me, and all these years I haven't let you enjoy happiness."

"Really, I'm truly grateful to you."

"In this life, I consider you my woman."

"Other women, to me, are... they don't matter; I don't even look at them."

"Having you is enough."

Lou Xiao'e, moved, said: "Is that really what's in your heart?"

Xu Damao: "Of course, I can swear if you don't believe me."

Lou Xiao'e pulled her hand out of Xu Damao's grasp, then examined him from head to toe and asked:

"Xu Damao, did you do something that wronged me?"

"When things go against the norm, there must be a monster."

Xu Damao was acting very strangely today.

Lou Xiao'e felt something was off.

Hearing her words, Xu Damao frowned involuntarily.

Lou Xiao'e let out a cold snort and said:

"You must have done something to let me down."

"Tell me, who is it? Is it Qin Huairu?"

Xu Damao looked anxious and said, "No, why would you think that?"

Lou Xiao'e: "Don't you know me yet?"

"You must have a problem, otherwise you wouldn't say those things to me."

Xu Damao had originally intended to confess to Lou Xiao'e that the problem of not being able to have children lay with him.

But.

Lou Xiao'e's warning just now made him shrink back.

However.

Now Lou Xiao'e felt he was acting too strangely.

Thus she was convinced he had done something to let her down.

That's not easy to handle.

If he doesn't admit today that the inability to have children is his problem, then Lou Xiao'e will definitely not let him off.

He gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and said:

"Xiao'e, I went to the hospital for a checkup today."

Lou Xiao'e frowned and asked:

"What checkup?"

Xu Damao: "Anyway, I've already figured out the problem of us not being able to have children."

Lou Xiao'e: "Is the problem with you?"

Xu Damao nodded.

Lou Xiao'e stared at Xu Damao, choking up as she said:

"I finally feel free."

"Xu Damao, I definitely want to divorce you!"

That's right.

She really did feel free.

She had always thought the problem of not being able to have children lay with her.

She had always felt she was letting Xu Damao down and letting the Xu family down.

So.

Even if Xu Damao's mother scolded her as a hen that can't lay eggs, she didn't dare to retort.

After all these years.

She had always thought it was her own problem.

Who would have thought it was actually Xu Damao's problem.

She has suffered too much grievance over these years.

Hearing her words, Xu Damao instantly turned deathly pale from fright.

He went "thump" and knelt before Lou Xiao'e, pleading:

"Xiao'e, don't, don't."

"I'll work like an ox or horse for you all my life; I just beg you not to divorce me, okay?"

Lou Xiao'e: "No."

"Xu Damao, do you know how much grievance I've suffered over these years?"

"Your mother gives me a cold face as soon as she sees me and often mocks me."

"She says I'm a hen that can't lay eggs."

Xu Damao: "I know, I know."

"It's all my fault, all my fault; I, I will never again force you to return to our home."

"Let's just live a steady life here from now on, okay?"

Lou Xiao'e: "Can we still live steadily?"

"Xu Damao, you can't deprive me of the right to be a mother."

"I ask you, what did the doctor say?"

"Can you still be cured in the future?"

"Speak honestly; otherwise, if I find out you lied to me, I will still divorce you."

Xu Damao: "I, the doctor said I basically won't be able to have children in this lifetime."

Lou Xiao'e: "If that's the case, let's part on good terms."

After saying that.

She turned and walked into the inner room.

Lou Xiao'e actually didn't have much feeling for Xu Damao either.

She hasn't been spared the mockery from Xu Damao and his family.

She has been holding in a breath of resentment all this time.

Now he learned the problem was not his own.

She certainly didn't want to suffer any more injustice.

Xu Damao got up, ran into the inner room, grabbed Lou Xiao'e's hand, and pleaded:

"Xiao'e, please, don't leave me, okay?"

Lou Xiao'e gave a cold snort, shook off his hand, and said:

"Xu Damao, I've already decided."

"I won't endure it any longer."