B5SB -Chapter 295 Taken Away

When Xiuying heard this, she looked at Cheng Bo in disbelief. Her lips trembled as she said,
“Dadang, how can you say something like that about me?”

“We held a wedding banquet back in our hometown. We’re a proper married couple!”

“And our child…”

“Shut up!”

Cheng Bo roared angrily, looking as if he wanted to devour her.

When Hu Shan heard Xiuying mention the wedding banquet in their hometown, she staggered.

She looked up at Cheng Bo, crying and laughing at the same time.

“No wonder you refused to go back home to hold a banquet when we got married.”

“I thought it was because your family was poor and couldn’t afford it. I even returned most of the bride price you gave me.”

“So it turns out you already held one—just not with me.”

Hearing this, Cheng Bo hurried forward and grabbed the corner of Hu Shan’s clothes tightly.

Panicking, he said, “No, it’s not what you think! I never registered with her. We’re not legally married!”

“Xiao Shan, you’re the only one I love.”

“You have to believe me!”

“If I didn’t love you, why would I register our marriage?”

“Even when you were hurt after your miscarriage and couldn’t have children anymore, I never once thought about divorcing you.”

If Hu Shan hadn’t heard what Cheng Bo said earlier, she might have believed him.

But now, she brushed his hand away and said coldly, “I want a divorce.”

Seeing how pitiful Hu Shan looked, someone stepped forward, patted her hand, and comforted her.

“Comrade, a man like this isn’t worth keeping. Not a word out of his mouth is true.”

“Exactly. He even deliberately said you couldn’t have children. Isn’t that secretly threatening you—saying no one would want you if you left him?”

Cheng Bo tried to fool Hu Shan, but the onlookers weren’t fools.

“Who knows, maybe the child in Xiuying’s family is his. That’s why he doesn’t care whether you can give birth or not.”

“He just saw that your family is well-off and wanted you to work like an ox or a horse to support them!”

Hearing this, Hu Shan didn’t say a word. She only let her tears fall.

She always remembered Secretary Chang’s words: She had to put herself in the position of a victim.

Only then would others pity her and speak up for her.

At this moment, Wang Auntie’s youngest son, Wang Qiang, came out of the house holding two placards. They read: “Immoral Relationship” and “Hooliganism.”

He stood at the door, shouted twice, and said to the dozen youths wearing red armbands behind him, “It’s these two! They’re having an illicit affair. Arrest them!”

Before Cheng Bo could resist, he was surrounded and beaten. Fists rained down on him until his face was swollen and bruised.

Hearing his wailing cries, Hu Shan felt a wave of satisfaction.

Xiuying wasn’t doing any better either. Her hair was disheveled, and her face was pale.

Several members of the Revolutionary Committee who put the placards on her groped her maliciously and sneered,

“Indeed, she has the capital to seduce men.”

At this time, Xiuying’s mother, thinking her daughter and son-in-law had probably finished talking, came over with the child.

Hearing the commotion, she felt uneasy and quickened her steps.

She ran into the youths from the Revolutionary Committee who were escorting Cheng Bo and Xiuying.

When she saw their condition, her face instantly darkened.

She shouted, “What are you doing?!”

“What are we doing? Are you blind? Can’t you see for yourself?”

“Your daughter was having an affair! She was caught in the act!”

Aunt Wang looked at her with disdain and snorted.

Wang Qiang, who had listened to Aunt Wang complain about her every day, had no good impression of Xiuying’s mother.

He stepped forward, blocked her, and threatened,

“If you dare interfere, we’ll arrest you too!”

Only then did Xiuying’s mother notice the red armbands on their arms. She froze in fear and dared not step forward.

She could only watch helplessly as Cheng Bo and her daughter were taken away.

The Next Day, Cheng Bo’s scandal exploded like a thunderclap in the textile factory.

As Hu Shan walked expressionlessly along the road, she could hear whispers all around her.

“I heard it was Director Hu who personally led people to catch Director Cheng in the act?”

“It’s true. My brother-in-law’s sister-in-law lives in that compound. She said Director Cheng was blocked in bed by a group of people.”

Many female workers looked at Hu Shan with sympathy in their eyes.

When Hu Shan pushed open the office door, Zhang Limin and Wang Guixiang looked at her together.

Hesitantly, they asked, “Xiao Shan, is what happened to your husband true?”

Hu Shan nodded lightly. “Mm.”

They both gasped, feeling that Cheng Bo had completely messed things up.

If he had just kept Hu Shan happy,

then even if her parents disliked him, for their daughter’s sake, they would have arranged his future properly.

“Creak.”

Gu Yihan pushed open the office door, glanced at Hu Shan’s expressionless face, and went to her seat.

At Noon, On the way to the cafeteria, Gu Yihan listened as Hu Shan talked about how Cheng Bo and Xiuying had been convicted of hooliganism and even had their heads shaved in the yin-yang style.

“Xiao Han, this weekend they’re going to be paraded and criticized near the supply and marketing cooperative. Do you want to go watch?”

Gu Yihan smiled and shook her head.

“I won’t go.”

Although she knew they brought it upon themselves, she still couldn’t accept this kind of public humiliation.

“Oh right, I want to buy a gift for Secretary Chang as thanks.”

Gu Yihan was startled for a moment.

Smiling, she asked, “Did Secretary Chang help you?”

“Yes,” Hu Shan replied. “This time, it was all thanks to him. Otherwise, I would’ve messed it up.”

Gu Yihan nodded.

Without help, with Hu Shan’s impulsive temper, even good things could turn bad.

“What do you think about giving him a fountain pen?”

Gu Yihan turned to look at her.

“Since you’re giving him a gift, shouldn’t you ask what he needs first?”

“Buy whatever he lacks. Otherwise, if you spend money on something he won’t use, wouldn’t that be a waste?”

Hu Shan slapped her forehead.

“How did I not think of that!”

Then she laughed.

“Xiao Han, you’re really smart.”

They finished lunch happily.

On the way back, Hu Shan stuffed her aluminum lunchbox into Gu Yihan’s hands.

“Xiao Han, help me take this back to the office. I’m going to find Secretary Chang.”

After saying that, she ran off in a hurry.

Gu Yihan watched her retreating figure, a trace of doubt flashing in her eyes.

Such a big thing had happened—why did she seem completely fine, as if nothing had happened at all?