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Just as Lady Li was unsure whether to quietly leave to save her mother-in-law some face or to speak a few words of persuasion to her father-in-law, the woman from the Xiang Clan had already regained her composure. She cried out to Zhu Jueyuan in anger, "What did I do wrong that you must hit me?"
She had borne Zhu Jueyuan three sons, and over the years, he had always been tolerant of her. Never would she have expected that at his age, he would still hit her. The woman from the Xiang Clan couldn't accept it.
"You still have the nerve to ask?!" Zhu Jueyuan was so angry that his chest hurt, and he threw the letter in his hand at the woman's face: "Do you not know what you've done in Hengzhou City? To be sent back in such a manner and still have the audacity to wail in front of me!"
Had this woman gone mad, thinking of trading him in for the sake of her nephew?
Did she truly place her nephew above their sons and this family in her heart?
