Chapter Ninety-Two: Hurry Home with Me

Seeing how frightened and deathly pale Madame Li looked, Gu Dachai felt thoroughly pleased. It seemed that even when he was not around, she still lived in fear of him.

"You really are something. Your daughter is already married off, so how can you still have the nerve to stay here and not go back?"

"Are your in-laws here? If they are, won’t they have something to say? You’re not planning to eat and drink here for nothing, are you? You may have no shame, but I do."

Gu Dachai pushed open the courtyard gate and walked in, talking to himself with unmistakable smugness.

He thought of Madame Li as nothing more than a beggar in this house. No matter how strangely Gu Xiaoyao had changed, she surely would not dare behave badly in front of her mother-in-law.

"Don’t come any closer. If you come any closer, I won’t be polite."

When Madame Li stood up, her panic was so great that she kicked over the stool on the ground.

Seeing her terror, the Fourth Brother stroked his chin and smiled. Gu Dachai might be a terrible man, but he certainly knew how to handle his wife.

Who knew how many beatings it had taken to reduce such a supple young bride to the state she was in now.

"What’s your problem? Why can’t I come over? I am your husband. Remember that the two of us have not separated."

"And I have not cast you aside either. You are Gu Dachai’s wife. Even if you die, you will be buried in the Gu family grave."

Once Gu Dachai entered the courtyard and found that there was truly no sound coming from the house, his courage swelled.

He spat and glared viciously at Madame Li, like a starving wolf that had spotted tender meat and was ready at any moment to pounce and tear into it, bloodily, with its teeth.

When Madame Li heard this, she backed away another two steps, unwilling to let him get too close.

Despair stirred in her heart. Xiaoyao and Xiaoshu were both away, and even her son-in-law had gone out on business. As for the in-laws living next door, they had left early in the morning, grumbling and cursing all the way. At this moment, it seemed she was the only one left here.

"I, I don’t want to be buried in your Gu family grave. I want a divorce from you..."

She did not know how those words had escaped her mouth. But seeing the smug expression on the man who had once slept beside her, she could no longer hold back.

At those words, a ferocious look surged over Gu Dachai’s face. He strode forward in long steps and seized Madame Li by the hand.

"Divorce? You actually dare speak of divorce to me? You think someone will still help you today?"

The moment he caught her hand, Gu Dachai swung it and slapped her across the face. Madame Li stumbled several steps from the blow.

She gave a muffled cry and covered her cheek with her other hand. Tears misted in her eyes, and her teeth clenched desperately into her lower lip.

"You still dare glare at me? Believe it or not, I’ll dig out both your eyes right now. Your nerve has grown quite bold, hasn’t it? You even dare speak of divorce in front of me now."

One slap was not enough to vent his fury. Gu Dachai swung again and struck her once more. Seeing blood at the corner of her mouth only excited him further.

Madame Li saw the fevered light in his eyes and knew he meant to beat her to death this time. Somewhere she found strength she did not know she had, and with a fierce look in her eyes, she opened her mouth and bit down hard on his wrist.

Gu Dachai cried out in pain and reflexively flung her away. When he saw her trying to escape, he reached out and seized her by the hair.

The people of Lotus Flower Village had originally thought that Gu Xiaoyao’s father had come looking for her. Who would have expected that the moment he stepped into the courtyard, he would start hitting someone?

"What are you doing? Why are you beating people here?"

"Exactly. Are you here to find someone or to beat someone?"

Some villagers could not bear to watch and wanted to step in and persuade him.

But Gu Dachai was used to such things. He knew these people would only curse a little outside the courtyard and would never actually come in to stop him.

"What business is it of yours? I’m taking my wife home. How is that any trouble to you?"

"Why are you all so concerned? Unless you’ve got something going on with this wretched woman."

The villagers who had originally been unable to watch any longer were left staring blankly at Gu Dachai’s shamelessness, never expecting him to be so brazen as to say such a thing.