He had just been puzzling over why the couple had returned home, one after the other, today.
As this thought crossed his mind, his facial expression changed dramatically. He watched in horror as he was too late to stop someone. He had no choice but to avert his face reflexively, not wanting to witness the impending disaster.
"Grandpa, we got divorced this afternoon," confessed Zhou Sinian, who knew it wasn't the best time to break the news, but he had been persistently reminded of the timing by that damned woman. The things she had been capable of doing at the Civil Affairs Bureau that afternoon forced him to take this risk.
An intense premonition told him that she could easily manipulate the hot search to put him, Zhou Sinian, in the headline news.
So between taking a beating and making the headlines, he chose the former without hesitation.
With a loud 'clatter', a miserable figure fell to the ground.
If the circumstances weren't so dire, Ye Nanxun would have cheered in admiration for the old man. Thankfully, she managed to control herself due to her sanity. She still wanted to offer him praise for being as 'sharp as ever'.
Uncle Akun, standing aside, squinted his eyes slightly in trepidation.
It hurt; it really hurt.
Should he intervene? After a moment's hesitation, he decided against it. He had been observing Miss Ye for two years and found her to be a good girl; the young master's behavior was inexcusable. He deserved to be beaten.
However, he felt that the despair caused by the "Auntie" affair, which the old man had spoken about this morning, was much worse than the physical pain.
Young Master, you'd better pray for mercy!
Hopefully, you can walk out of the Zhou Family's gate on your feet today.
After venting his anger physically, the old patriarch, Zhou, gestured for Ye Nanxun to come over.
"Grandpa, don't be too upset. Our divorce was inevitable. It's better for everyone if we divorce sooner rather than later. Don't worry, whether I am divorced from Sinian or not, you will always be my grandpa. That will never change."
The old man felt a mix of emotions hearing her words: "I know you are a good child; it's our Zhou family that has wronged you."
Zhou Sinian, who had just got up from the ground, heard this and couldn't help but suspect whether this woman was the real granddaughter of the Zhou family while he was the adopted one. The treatment was markedly different.
Yes, he had initiated the divorce agreement. All the faults were his. But he regretted it afterward. Yet everything seemed predestined and left no room for him to repent.
Even the staff at the Civil Affairs Bureau, he seriously suspected whether they were colluding with this woman. Why did they not even try to stop the divorce- like they did for others- but promptly finalized it?
The increasingly neglected Zhou Sinian had already lost his composure. He desperately wanted to explain himself, but he was completely dumbstruck the next moment.
"What?" Had he misheard?
"Grandpa, what did you just say?" His handsome face was a mess of purples and blues, making him look rather comical.
If it had been any other day, Ye Nanxun would have risked her life to record this scene with her phone, but now, she was astonished by the old man's words: "Grandpa, you're kidding, right?"
After jokingly saying that, she looked for Uncle Akun, hoping he would talk some sense into the old man. But she realized from his calm face that it might not be a joke. She cautiously confirmed, "Uncle Akun, tell me the grandpa's joking, right?"
His slightly shaking head shattered her last bit of hope, leaving Ye Nanxun on the verge of tears: "Grandpa, if you consider me as your granddaughter, and people find out, the Zhou family will become a laughingstock."
The baffled man standing aside emphatically nodded in agreement. If his ex-wife became "auntie", he couldn't imagine the repercussions. However, no one could change the decisions made by the old man. Now Zhou Sinian could only pin his hopes on Ye Nanxun, hoping she would make a humanitarian decision and reject this proposal.