She had enough of it all!

This awful China, this detestable Chinese woman!

Everything had shown signs – that a failed wedding was the first omen.

Yet George said Ji Ya was just emotionally unstable, and that seeing a psychiatrist would help her improve.

Would things get better that way?

The business failed.

So what if it failed? The initial investment was all George’s money. Even in Mrs. Wilson’s current difficulties, that small sum meant nothing to her!

So what was Ji Ya so indignant about?

The brand was completely taken by the bank to repay loans. Ji Ya hadn’t lost money personally – she just hadn’t made any.

Poor foolish George bore all the losses!

OK, a little money wasn’t the most important thing. Perhaps this woman could learn a lesson from it and stop causing trouble, quietly being George’s wife. If Ji Ya could bring George happiness, Mrs. Wilson could reluctantly accept her.

But was Ji Ya bringing George happiness?

A terrible relationship – shit, this awful marriage brought nothing but unhappiness.

Ji Ya didn’t love George. Mrs. Wilson was more certain of this than anyone.

You can tell if a wife loves her husband by how she looks at him. Ji Ya didn’t love George at all, and this fact had dealt George a heavy blow, damaging his confidence as a man.

No matter how well he did, Ji Ya wouldn’t love him. George would obsess over this, doubting himself.

Any mother would be furious seeing her son in such a terrible marriage.

“Can’t George divorce you? As his wife, what have you ever done for your husband!”

“Madam, this is between George and me. If he wants to divorce me, I won’t beg. Please leave and give us privacy.”

Ji Ya was irritated too.

Tonight she had first been thwarted by Tang Hong’en. She thought she had leverage over something Tang Hong’en cared about, but unexpectedly he refused to “negotiate” and had her sent to the police station.

And now he was threatening to send her to a mental hospital!

When George arrived, Ji Ya was secretly pleased.

She knew George loved her – how could a man who loves a woman bear to see her suffer?

Her disheveled state tonight, her grievances, might be a turning point.

If George would take the initiative… Ji Ya’s pride was starting to crack. She really couldn’t afford to lose, couldn’t lose Elegance. Such an outcome would completely negate her entire ability as a person.

George embraced her like before, holding her no matter how she struggled, never letting go.

But what he said wasn’t what she expected.

George wasn’t offering money to help her through this crisis.

George wanted to take her back to America, wanted her to give up Elegance.

George even thought her illness needed intensive treatment – she didn’t need that at all, she was just angry at Tang Hong’en and Liu Fen, she wasn’t crazy!

“You want to divorce me? You think I’m crazy too, don’t you?”

Most men would have been driven mad by someone like Ji Ya. George had lasted the longest – unlike Ji Ya’s other boyfriends who only dated her briefly before breaking up, he had chosen to marry her.

“You can come back to America with me. I’m giving you another choice. If you’ll just compromise for me this once, our marriage will be incredibly stable!”

“No, I won’t go back to America. You’re making me run away, you’re trying to control me with this…”

“You’re just like Tang Hong’en, you’re all the same!”

“You think this will make me submit?”

“Fine, let’s divorce. I’m sick of your parents looking down on me too.”

George finally couldn’t take it anymore.

He felt suffocated. He ran out of the room. Ji Ya tried to follow, but two police officers quickly held her back.

George turned to look at her, “Ji, you’ve betrayed my love. You’ve disappointed me deeply. Don’t worry, I won’t let them send you to a mental hospital. I said I don’t trust China’s medical standards – I think mental hospitals are just another kind of prison… This is the last thing I can do for you, Ji. I wish you well.”

Ji Ya stood straight and tall.

Even after falling into the water, she was still a phoenix, not a mountain chicken.

To make her beg a man for mercy, plead for his forgiveness, beg for the marriage to continue?

No, impossible!

Secretary Lai was dumbfounded.

Oh my, they were talking about sending her to a mental hospital for treatment, how did it turn into divorce?

This wouldn’t do – they couldn’t divorce! How could a woman act this way when she had a good man? If they divorced, wouldn’t she become even more reckless, deliberately causing trouble for the leader?

Some people think this way – if they’re not doing well while their ex is doing great, they become even more obstinate.

Secretary Lai quietly stepped out to find the police station staff:

“They can’t divorce. If they divorce, who will be responsible for sending her to the mental hospital?”

Divorce was fine, but first, get her into treatment. They could divorce or not after that.

They couldn’t let George take her away. After the divorce, George would just go back to America, leaving such a troublemaker in China – it would be Secretary Lai’s headache.

“Doesn’t she have a family?”

“I heard she has a son.”

The police asked, and Secretary Lai broke into another sweat. Yes, there was a son – Mayor Tang’s son too, a classmate of Xia Xiaolan’s, grown up now. Would the son agree to send his mother to a mental hospital?

That child wasn’t close to Mayor Tang at all, he must be close to his mother.

Secretary Lai’s sweat poured more heavily. If this wasn’t handled well, how could he face the leader’s trust?

…

“Now Ji Jiangyuan will come.”

Xia Xiaolan hadn’t thought as much as Secretary Lai had. Secretary Lai thought Ji Ya would harass Tang Hong’en after the divorce, but in Xia Xiaolan’s view, Ji Ya’s madness had nothing to do with George at all.

Marriage to George hadn’t made Ji Ya feel constrained.

But marriage to George had provided Ji Ya with financial support.

Xia Xiaolan welcomed their divorce. Without George, it would be much harder for Ji Ya to cause trouble!

Besides, George was truly pitiful – loving without being loved back wasn’t fair to him.

“When you should cut ties but don’t, you’ll suffer for it. Their marriage can’t continue, and it’s not just because of tonight. You reap what you sow. Ji Ya is proud now, but she may regret it in the future.”

Not cherishing others’ true feelings, selfishly thinking only of herself – without George, even if she found another partner, she would still end up in this dead end.

Zhou Cheng spoke like an old sage, and Xia Xiaolan gently pinched him:

“Shall we wait for Ji Jiangyuan to arrive, tell him the situation, and then leave? Let them argue it out slowly.”

The end of tonight wasn’t an ending – for Ji Ya, it was just the beginning!

After dawn, waiting for Ji Ya wasn’t just a broken marriage, but also the bank taking away Elegance… Whether Ji Ya knelt and apologized seemed irrelevant now. This woman would find it hard to recover.

Xia Xiaolan wanted to wait for Ji Jiangyuan to see his reaction!

Would he throw Ji Ya a lifeline, or push her further into the river?