Chapter 490 How Dare You Divorce Me!

Chapter 490: You Dare Divorce Me?!

Lu Hanyi lunged at Li Wenxun like a raging bull, fists and feet flailing wildly.

She started by throwing sloppy, windmill punches and slaps at Li Wenxun’s face. He never expected Lu Hanyi to have become so brutal and feral over the past decade. Before, she had merely been quick to fly off the handle, unreasonable, and prone to tantrums—but now, she was throwing hands!

Her untrained, chaotic punches and slaps landed on Li Wenxun before he could react. Once he regained his senses, he dodged, but Lu Hanyi, missing a couple of strikes, tore at his clothes and yanked his beard hair.

The painful tugs made Li Wenxun howl in pain. He fought back, grappling with her like trying to catch a flapping, furious hen—only to end up with deep, stinging scratches from her long nails and vicious bites from her teeth.

Having lived a life of comfort for too long, Li Wenxun couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag. Caught off guard, he took every hit from Lu Hanyi.

"Master!"

"Father!"

"Madam!"

"Old Madam!"

The concubines, children, maids, servants, and even Xu Yinyin in the room descended into bedlam.

A crowd rushed forward to pull them apart, finally separating the two.

"You—you—you madwoman! How dare you hit me?!" Li Wenxun raged, his robes disheveled, his hair loose, his face and body covered in scratches and bites, some deep enough to draw blood.

He glared at Lu Hanyi in fury.

"I’m hitting you, you rotten old bastard!" Lu Hanyi, though restrained, remained a force of nature, hurling insults at Li Wenxun.

She was no longer the young girl who had once been outmaneuvered by Li Wenxun’s schemes, left helpless and swallowing her grievances.

Now, she was a hellcat!

As the saying goes, speak now or forever hold your peace.

If she couldn’t outsmart these sneaky snakes who constantly bullied and plotted against her with underhanded tricks—if she couldn’t match their craftiness—then she would raise hell!

And when she did, she was unstoppable!

Li Wenxun never imagined his wife could become so unhinged. Furious, he pointed at her and declared, "I’ll cast you out, you harpy! I will dump you!"

The moment he uttered the words, the room fell silent.

The three concubines—Xiang and the others—exchanged gleeful looks. They hadn’t come to provoke Lu Hanyi today just for kicks.

Their goal had been to sow discord between the master and mistress upon arriving in the capital, while also sizing her up to prepare for future schemes.

Yet, their first move had actually pushed Li Wenxun to consider divorce...

They couldn’t help but rejoice.

Xu Yinyin, hearing such a bombshell, felt her stomach drop. In a panic, she looked between her father-in-law and mother-in-law, her mind racing with thoughts of Li Shouye.

If they went through with divorce or separation—what would become of Li Shouye?

What career prospects does he even have left! His colleagues would laugh him out of office!

"Mother-in-law, you can’t keep flying off the handle like this. You have to consider Shou Ye," Xu Yinyin said, supporting Lu Hanyi.

At her words, Lu Hanyi only sneered coldly, "How dare you divorce me!"

"My eldest sister is now the lady of both the Ningyang Marquis's Mansion and the EverVictorious Marquis's Mansion! My brother Lu Kuan is the emperor’s favorite! My younger sisters have all married into high-ranking families, and my Lu family is flourishing beyond measure! How dare a lowly eighth-rank warehouse clerk like you divorce me!"

Lu Hanyi’s mind had never been sharper.

She straightened her back, shoved Xu Yinyin aside, and pointed at Li Wenxun's nose, cursing fiercely, "Do you think I'm still that fool you bullied into fleeing Jiangnan with my tail between my legs? Look around—this is the Imperial City! This is my territory! With just a snap of my fingers, I can have you demoted from the warehouse to cleaning latrines!"

Hearing this, Li Wenxun's raging fury suddenly cooled.

Indeed.

How could he dare divorce Lu Hanyi?

Now that her maternal family was so powerful—her eldest sister Lu Lingyun not only the lady of a marquis's household but also part of a family with two marquises, her second son being the newly victorious and ever-glorious EverVictorious Marquis! Her brother Lu Kuan was pulling strings in court, deeply trusted for a decade!

With just these two siblings backing her, he absolutely couldn't afford to divorce Lu Hanyi.

Not to mention her other well-married sisters, her father and brothers also serving in court.

And, of course, Li Shouye, whom she had raised single-handedly...

"Fine, for Shou Ye’s sake, I’ll let it slide!" Li Wenxun snorted coldly, letting the matter drop.

"You’ll let it slide?" Lu Hanyi sneered, about to unleash her fury again when Li Shouye hurriedly returned from outside.

"Son!"

"Shou Ye!"

Seeing Li Shouye return, Lu Hanyi’s anger instantly cooled.

The moment he stepped in, Li Shouye saw the chaos in the courtyard—his father, whom he hadn't seen in over a decade, and his concubines standing opposite.

"Son! You’re finally home!" Lu Hanyi latched onto Li Shouye.

In that moment, mother and son seemed to rely solely on each other once more. The helplessness in Lu Hanyi's voice, her utter dependence on Li Shouye, cut him to the core.

No matter what, he held no goodwill toward the father who had ignored them for over a decade.

Even when Lu Hanyi’s dramatics gave him a headache, she was still his mother—he wouldn’t let anyone mess with her!

"Father, how could you come home and start in on Mother right away?" he demanded.

Li Wenxun: "..."

"My son," Lu Hanyi, moved to tears by Li Shouye's defense, sobbed, "Thank God I have you. Without you, I wouldn’t know how to keep going!"

Li Wenxun, scratched up by her: "..."

Li Shouye pulled Lu Hanyi behind him, glaring even more furiously at Li Wenxun. "Father, Mother has toiled alone in the Imperial City, taking care of Grandfather and Grandmother, looking out for me. She may not have achievements, but she’s suffered plenty. How could you barge in here and start finding fault with her?"

Li Wenxun: "..."

He was so frustrated he could spit blood at these two.

"Which eye saw me bullying your mom! Look at us—your aunts, your siblings, even me—we're all hurt!"

Only then did Li Shouye glance at the opposing camp, where not a single person was unharmed.

That's how fierce his mother was...

But at this moment, he had to stand by his own mother. He simply stared at the fancy-dressed aunts before him and said, "Father, you know today is your first day back in the capital. Why'd you let these aunts come rile up Mom on your first day back? Don't you know she's always been at odds with them?"

Li Shouye had hit the nail on the head.

If these damn aunts hadn't provoked her, Lu Hanyi wouldn't have been driven to such fury.

Li Wenxun had no rebuttal here. He merely snorted and threw a dirty look at Aunt Xiang and her crew.

The unspoken message was that they would be dealt with later.

All three instantly recoiled, not daring to utter another word.