She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

The most lively family in the compound lately is Old Chen's. They used to seem like a family, but recently the atmosphere between the children has become extremely tense, and they don't even say a word to each other when they bump into each other in the compound.

Yu Hongzhen moved into the military family compound with his sister. The Chen family had too many problems, which also affected them. He wasn't officially their son-in-law yet, so it wasn't appropriate for him to stay there permanently. Besides, after being scolded like that by Chen Xiangbei that day, even someone with the thickest skin wouldn't dare to stay there.

Yu Qingqing has been in a daze these past few days. If she hadn't answered questions fairly clearly, Yu Hongzhen would have thought she had another episode.

"Brother, I want to go see Auntie." Yu Qingqing suddenly said this one day.

Yu Hongzhen: "But didn't she say she didn't want to see us again?"

Yu Qingqing: "These past few days I've been thinking, if I had been a little more crazy in the countryside, a little more crazy in front of my parents, would all those tragedies that happened to me have been avoided? I think that when my aunt vented her anger by smashing the house and cursing at us that day, after careful consideration, not a single word she said was wrong."

"Of course, I'm referring to the things she said to me. I don't know if what she said about other people's personalities is true."

Yu Hongzhen still felt lingering fear when he recalled that day. Although he knew that Xiang Hong's house was lively, he did not expect it to be this lively. He also remembered the words he was scolded that day: "Qingqing, do you also think that your older brother is useless?"

Yu Qingqing shook her head. "Big brother, I know you have your reasons. You've been waiting for an opportunity to bring Mom and Dad down... otherwise, even if we resist, someone will suppress this matter. Big brother, your previous desperate reports ruined your future in Haishi, but they didn't have a big impact on them. So, you don't need to blame yourself."

Yu Hongzhen chuckled self-deprecatingly, “You don’t need to comfort me. You’re thinking about what your aunt said, and I’ve been thinking about it too these past few days. Putting aside what you just mentioned, I haven’t put much effort into you. Like she said, even if Mom and Dad can’t move right now, I can still rescue you from them first.”

On this day, the two siblings reviewed their past mistakes and felt increasingly inadequate.

After Chen Xiangbei cursed everyone on the day his parents divorced, nobody really cared about him anymore. They gave him a room to live in, but nobody cooked for him.

Apart from the vegetables that Grandma Xia directed everyone to buy before the Lunar New Year, which were still left over, no one else would buy vegetables on their own initiative. They didn't go home for meals either, and ate out instead.

Old Chen applied for overtime every day, eating and drinking at the factory, practically living there. Chen Xiangnan and his wife either ate at state-run restaurants outside or went to Tang's house for a free meal. Chen Xianghong went to the vicinity of the military base every day to wait for Yu Hongzhen to eat together, and he introduced her to a few people, as she would be living in the military base in the future.

In the whole family, Chen Xiangbei was the only one who was like a left-behind child. No one paid attention to him, and no one cared whether he would starve to death.

Fortunately, Tang Jiao found him a new blanket after he was scolded, otherwise he might have been in even worse shape. Chen Xianghong also left him some money; after all, he was her younger brother whom she had grown up with. Although she was still angry with him, she was genuinely afraid he would starve to death.

Chen Xiangbei was filled with regret. He knew that his father and second brother didn't care about him as much as his mother did, but he never expected that their revenge against him would be emotional abuse, with everyone ignoring him.

If I had known, I wouldn't have scolded him so harshly. After Mom leaves, who will treat him like a child anymore?

What he didn't know was that the others also stopped talking to each other. Everyone seemed to have become very unfamiliar with each other, to the point that they wanted to avoid each other when they met.

When Xu Meiyu heard the news of Old Chen's divorce, she had just finished receiving the last group of people who came to wish her father a Happy New Year. This year, there were an unusually large number of people visiting her father, so she had to postpone her visit to Old Chen's house.

Just as she was about to pack her things, Chen Weimin rushed over and told her the news. It was Chen Mei who had found Chen Weimin and told him the news.

"She's gone mad, she's really gone mad! My sister-in-law has gone mad!" Chen Weimin seemed more panicked than the divorcee himself. "My brother is going to be the man who's been abandoned. How could someone as proud as him not go crazy?"

Xu Meiyu didn't know the specifics, but since such a big thing had happened in Chen Weimin's family, she felt she had to go and see. "I'll go and ask today. My brother is really something, not even telling us about such a big thing, and then quietly getting a divorce. If I had known they had such a big problem this year, I wouldn't have been able to help my dad. If it weren't for our son graduating this year and needing to find a job, I wouldn't have bothered with all these social obligations."

While looking for New Year's gifts, Chen Weimin replied, "Fortunately, our son has already found a job."

Xu Meiyu rolled her eyes at him. "Even if my son is bad, he can't be unemployed or go to the countryside. It's just that this job is particularly good, so all my hard work these past few days has been worthwhile."

The two arrived at the courtyard where Old Chen lived. The courtyard was empty, and their house was also empty.

"Where is everyone? Why is there no one here?" Xu Meiyu knocked on the door, but there was no response.

Chen Xiangbei heard the noise outside, but he was too lazy to move. After a while, someone knocked on the door, and he finally got up and opened it impatiently.

"Third Aunt?" Chen Xiangbei asked in surprise.

Chen Weimin gently patted his head, "You only have eyes for your third aunt, but not your third uncle?"

Chen Xiangbei called out weakly, "Happy New Year, Third Uncle."

"What's going on with your parents? If your aunt hadn't told me, we wouldn't know anything," Xu Meiyu asked bluntly.

Chen Xiangbei, the little chatterbox, seemed to have been opened up and started talking non-stop. He talked for a long time without finishing, and Xu Meiyu was already getting impatient. "Alright, alright, I know. Where does your mother live now? I have to go see her."

Chen Xiangbei lowered his head: "It's the company dormitory."

"I understand. Let your third uncle stay here with you. I'll go see her alone." Xu Meiyu ignored Chen Weimin's pitiful eyes without any sympathy and left without looking back.

Before leaving, she said, "Xiang Bei is such a pitiful child. As his third uncle, you should play with him for a while."

Xu Meiyu quickly arrived at the entrance of the textile factory and asked someone to call for Grandma Xia.

After these past few days, Grandma Xia has finally figured out the backgrounds of the girls in the dormitory. She has a feeling that her days in the dormitory will not be too uneventful either.

When she heard someone was looking for her, but didn't clearly identify themselves, only saying it was a woman, she assumed it was Xiang Hong who had finally collapsed and come to see her. Initially, she didn't want to see her, but when she heard the woman was dressed fashionably, Old Mrs. Xia felt it couldn't be her thrifty Xiang Hong.