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

"Yes, lower your head, apologize, and don't think like that anymore. Live a good life with your man and be nicer to your daughter."

Dong Chunmiao looked indignant. She thought these people were out of their minds. What was there to pity about a little girl?

"Little cotton-padded jacket"? Bah, she's a money-loser.

“What do you know? After I married him, he kept all the money he earned and didn’t give me a single penny. I don’t have a job. If I hadn’t gone to my parents’ house for meals, I might not have been able to afford a meal, let alone anything else.”

Dong Chunmiao burst into tears, "I've been married into this family for so many years, and I haven't had a single good day."

The onlookers were misled again.

"She's quite pitiful; her clothes are so tattered, and her shoes are worn out."

“When I was a child, I saw that the people who fled famine were dressed better than her.”

"Look at the hair tie she's using, it's so worn out."

“This child, her in-laws aren’t having an easy time either, how can things be like this?”

"A grown man who doesn't even support his wife?"

"No wonder she often goes back to her parents' home; she would probably starve to death if she stayed at her husband's house."

"Young man, you're not doing this right. You may be dressed nicely, but you should also save some money for your wife."

Chen Xiangnan: "Was it me who didn't give it to her? When we first got married, I gave her my salary every month, and she would take it to her parents' house the next day. My mother and her mother-in-law made clothes and shoes for the family, but they never forgot her. The next day, she would start taking apart clothes to make clothes for her little nephew, and sometimes she would give the new clothes directly to her sister-in-law to wear."

"Everyone in our compound knows my mom's character; she's the kindest person imaginable, definitely not the kind of mother-in-law who torments people. If you don't believe me, you can ask around in our compound; I would never lie. We even have receipts for the fabric we bought, and the fabric my sister-in-law is wearing was also bought by my mom. She couldn't possibly only make fabric for my sister-in-law and not for her, could she?"

"On the contrary, if you have nothing to do, you can go and see their village. It's only a four-hour walk from the hospital. Their family's conditions don't allow them to wear such good fabrics. But look at what my mother-in-law is wearing, and what my brother-in-law and father-in-law are wearing. Some of the fabrics were specially supplied to the workers. They were welfare benefits from my dad's factory. They were originally fabrics meant to make clothes for me, but now they're all in their family."

His words were reasonable and well-founded, and everyone's eyes turned to Dong Chunmiao's mother, who had just spoken. They noticed that she was indeed dressed better than her daughter, and the pattern on her pants was like that of a young woman.

Everyone sided with Chen Xiangnan again and began to condemn Dong Chunmiao and her daughter.

Dong Chunmiao wiped away her tears and glared at him angrily, "Are you trying to force me to die?"

Chen Xiangnan had known this kind of person for a long time. It was useless to tell her that their daughter was also their child. She wouldn't listen to normal people's words, and reasoning with her was even more ineffective. Now that he realized he couldn't win the argument, she was resorting to suicidal threats.

He recalled the outrageous things Dong Chunmiao had just said and asked, "You just said your nephew is precious, but what does he have to do with you? He's a member of the Dong family. You've married me; you're a daughter-in-law of the Chen family."

Dong Chunmiao: "My nephew will help me in the future."

Chen Xiangnan: "Didn't you just say that a married daughter has no relation to her maternal family? Aren't you a married daughter of the Chen family?"

Dong Chunmiao was caught in a dilemma. "But... I can only rely on them from now on. If I'm not good to them, how can they be good to me?"

Chen Xiangnan: "You mean I, your man, am unreliable?"

Dong Chunmiao remained silent.

Chen Xiangnan was furious, but he still continued, "You've helped your family so much, but what have they done for you? Can you give me an example, even just one?"

Dong Chunmiao wanted to say that they had helped her a lot and were very kind to her, but after thinking about it carefully, she couldn't think of anything specific.