However, Qiao Nan was an outsider, after all. What she could do wasn’t important. What mattered was how insistent Xu Shengnan was.

  “Impossible. I was never bullied in school. After getting married, he was the most important person in my life. The time we spent together was longer than how parents spent time with their children. Based on how he has treated me, I’ve already given up. Having been bullied for the first time, am I going to be bullied a second time? If that was the case, I would have let my parents down for naming my name!” When Xu Shengnan hesitated, she was a little foolish. However, once she made up her mind, she took out the courage equivalent to that that she had when running an English club in university back then.

  “Qiao Nan, help me. I’m getting a divorce for sure. However, as the other party was the one who cheated, he doesn’t need to think of getting away with the money I deserve. I don’t deny that their family had paid the down payment for the house we are living in now. However, the person who had been paying the mortgage for the past few years is me. If we are really getting a divorce, I want half of the house.”

  When the time came, she would accept either money or the house. However, if they wanted to swallow her money and chase her out of the house, then sorry, that was impossible.

  “Have you thought it through carefully? Are you sure you won’t change your mind?”

  “I have, Qiao Nan. If possible, can the child be left to me? I’m worried that my daughter will be ruined sooner or later if she continues to live with such a family. Furthermore, in the past few years, I can see clearly that my mother-in-law likes grandsons and despises me for giving birth to a daughter. Perhaps the reason he had an affair was so that he could give birth to a son. I’m willing for my daughter and me to give up our positions at home.”

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  There was only one child in the family and they didn’t treat her daughter well. If that man remarried and gave birth to a son in the future, where would her daughter stand in the family? They didn’t like her daughter, but she treated her as her precious.

  “Okay.” Qiao Nan relaxed and smiled. “Since you have this intention, listen to me now. The repayment of mortgage must have been through your salary. Go to the bank now and pull out the monthly and yearly bills where you have paid the mortgage. Keep them safe. Also, you should be quarreling with them now. Bring your daughter back to your parent’s house. They wouldn’t stop you. At this point in time, don’t ever let them have a chance to keep in contact with your daughter or even bring her away.”

  Qiao Nan wasn’t worried about anything else. She was afraid that the other party would be too shameless and use this child to threaten Xu Shengnan to give up her everything.

  “Don’t worry. I have already inquired about all of these. I will take note. I’m not going to let them take my daughter away and use her to threaten me.” Xu Shengnan had listened to Qiao Nan’s advice. Before making this call, she did ask for a lawyer’s opinion.

  It was difficult to say everything clearly in a short period of time. Most importantly, if they really went to court, it was useless to just use words alone. In order for the court to pass judgment, they would require a lot of supporting evidence. Xu Shengnan was lacking in evidence now.

  Although the other party wasn’t from the capital, they had stayed in the capital for a long period of time and interacted better than Xu Shengnan. A bunch of neighbors had come out and said that Xu Shengnan left early and returned late, totally unlike a daughter-in-law at all. She put on makeup and wore dresses every day, looking indecent.

  Evidence like these would affect the final judgment of the lawsuit. As such, if Xu Shengnan wanted to win, she had to come up with stronger supporting evidence and let the judge know that in their marriage, the man was the party who had been irresponsible to the family.

  On this point, Xu Shengnan couldn’t do it herself. However, Qiao Nan could. After knowing that Xu Shengnan had such a friend, the lawyer told Xu Shengnan to find this friend for help so that they could have all the supporting evidence on hand. With the evidence, he would proceed with the next steps.

  One had to know that this wasn’t the first time he was fighting such divorce lawsuits, especially the kind of lawsuits where the man was the one who had an affair but he maligned the woman and even found others to provide false evidence. Once these were verified, it was without a doubt that they would win this lawsuit.

  “Okay. Let’s do this then.” After hanging up the call with Xu Shengnan, Qiao Nan called someone else. This person was considered Zhai Sheng’s comrade, although he was retired. What was strange was that this man with a talentless hobby actually opened a detective agency. In this society where it was better to get ahead in life by abandoning one’s scruples than to suffer poverty, the detective agency’s business wasn’t bad.

  Qiao Nan provided Xu Shengnan’s information to the other party, wanting him to try and take as many substantive photos as possible so that substantive evidence could be obtained. Qiao Nan even speculated. “If you know who the woman is, maybe you can start with her. I know that this man’s family favors males. Even his mother has stood out to put on such a big act. It might be that not only is the woman he is having an affair with is pregnant, but she might also be pregnant with a son.”

  It could only be due to this reason that the mother-and-son pair would be so impatient to force Xu Shengnan away and let the third-party and her son take her position.

  “No problem.” The other party said with interest, “Sister-in-law, don’t worry. It’s either you don’t find me for this matter, or if you do, I’ll make sure to complete this task and not throw our chief’s face away.” If he couldn’t complete this task, wouldn’t the chief lose face in front of sister-in-law in the future?

  The only way to prevent people from knowing is not doing it.

  A lot of things were already presented on the table. It wasn’t a difficult thing if Xu Shengnan wanted a divorce and got back everything she deserved over the years.

  Once Xu Shengnan brought her daughter back to her parents’ house, she told the teachers in school clearly that only she or her parents could pick her daughter up from school. If the child’s grandmother or father came to pick her up, the school teachers must not release her to them. If they created trouble, regardless of when it was, the teachers should call her immediately so that she could settle it.

  Qiao Nan was really not worried for nothing. After Xu Shengnan finished talking to her daughter’s teacher, the child’s father walked into the school shamelessly within three days and insisted on fetching the child away.

  It could only be said that this father was a failure. When they were at home, even if Xu Shengnan was busy, she would be the one to pick her daughter up and care for her the most. When she was busy at work, her mother-in-law would pick her up. As she liked grandsons, she would always be in a bad mood when picking her granddaughter up. From time to time, she would even call her granddaughter a money pit, wasting the big house her son had bought.

  Don’t think that all children are young and thus insensible. They could actually understand what the adults were saying. Even if they didn’t understand, based on the other party’s expression and tone alone, it wasn’t difficult to differentiate if the other party liked or hated them.