From nowhere, my sister suddenly ran out and yelled, “Leigh, I’ve told you again and again to value your marriage! Look at you! Having abortions eight times before marriage was bad enough, but even after getting married, you’re still so trashy! What man could take that? Hurry up and give Waylon to me, only a decent woman like me deserves him!”
Looking at their disgusting, well-practiced faces and hearing the whispers around me, anger made me laugh.
When Waylon and I got married, my mother and sister looked down on his poverty, chased him away with a broom, splashed him with cold water, and shouted at the door that he would stay a beggar forever.
Because we were poor, we had no wedding, no banquet, and my mother didn’t even give me a cent of dowry.
Now that he’s proven himself at work and become the deputy general manager of the company, they shamelessly want to take my husband.
When I stayed silent, my mother tried to hit me again, but before her hand could fall, someone caught her wrist.
As I lifted my head to see who it was, my eyes turned red in an instant.
Dark-faced, Waylon wrapped his arms around me. “Mom, Reese, out of respect for you being Leigh’s family, I’ve kept quiet until now. But you’ve crossed the line today, spreading lies to make us divorce is going too far. Let me say this clearly: I have only one wife, Leigh. Even if I die, I will never divorce her, and I will never marry Reese.”
Those watching who didn’t know what was going on suddenly figured everything out.
“I was thinking, what kind of mother would shame her own daughter in public and force her to divorce? Is that younger daughter even hers? She’s worth less than a cabbage in the field.”
“What’s even more insane is making her son-in-law marry the older daughter, and the two of them working together to throw dirt like that. One old shameless woman and one young shameless one, completely disgusting.”
My sister’s face went pale.
Even more furious, my mother yelled, “Waylon! Don’t be ungrateful! How can trash like Leigh ever compare to my Reese? Reese liking you is a miracle; you must’ve saved the world in a past life! If you don’t marry her, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life!”
Waylon covered my ears and guided me away.