Chapitre 439: Chapter 439: The Resentment Grows Stronger

Return to the maternal home, and break away from the family.

Those five words, thrown out there, on top of that brutal statement that was like peeling off their clothes and stabbing straight into their hearts.

The faces of the women present took a rather ghastly turn.

Especially Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Zhang, who were just last night thinking that had they known this would happen, they wouldn't have married into the Tong family. As if Tong Tiehu was a mind reader, he laid bare and rebuked these thoughts.

Their faces kept alternating between green and white

Could they find a better house to marry into than the Tong Family?

The answer was oblique. They could not.

Like other women, would they be content with getting married then incessantly caring for in-laws and busying with domestic chores and field work, working until they half-drop dead and at a young age morph into haggard and sallow women?

They would not.

So, if they could turn back time, they would...