Chapter 834: If This Isn't Double Standards, What Is

Fan Tong’s face turned red.

Tong Huaqiong watched Fan Tong with cold eyes.

Analyzing quickly in her mind.

This posture of Fan Tong suggests a complete break with the Gu Family.

He just arrived in Shengjing, hasn’t found a job to make a living, lacks sufficient skills, and doesn’t even have a house. If he breaks with the Gu Family today, he’ll have to move out.

Who gave him the courage?

She understood that someone like Fan Tong, selfish and self-serving, would do whatever benefits him.

Even if Gu Honglian was truly tarnished, or blatantly cuckolded him, as long as the Gu Family behind Gu Honglian could bring him benefits, he would swallow it.

What made Fan Tong willing to offend the Gu Family but still choose to break with Gu Honglian?

Connecting to Fan Tong having no trace of distress after a day and night outside, Tong Huaqiong suspected Fan Tong had some sort of encounter last night.

He might have climbed up to someone wealthy or powerful.

The whole city was out admiring lanterns last night, it’s really possible.

Gu Honglian’s reputation being tarnished was just an excuse for Fan Tong to abandon her.

So even if modern cameras could fully prove Gu Honglian’s innocence, Fan Tong would still play deaf, refusing to listen, believe, or see.

What he wants isn’t the truth at all, but to abandon Gu Honglian and grasp at something higher.

Fan Tong, trying hard to suppress the fear inside, met Tong Huaqiong’s gaze and said, “Sister-in-law, I can’t want a woman like those from the Gu Family.”

Gu Honglian was so angry her teeth were chattering.

Liu Yueer sneered, “What do you mean?”

Fan Tong said, “A woman’s reputation is above all; it’s better to die than to lose chastity.”

Mr. Su’s face darkened, and he couldn’t help but say, “Who told you this twisted theory and outrageous words? While a woman’s reputation is important, context matters. If it’s a choice between life and reputation, naturally life should be chosen.”

Mr. Su wished he had never been Fan Tong’s teacher, it was too embarrassing.

Fan Tong asserted confidently, “In the former dynasty, there was a fiercely loyal woman who exposed her arm, seen by a man, and she wanted to sever her arm to prove her purity. Gu Honglian’s situation last night was more severe than exposing an arm.”

Mr. Su was infuriated to the point of wanting to storm out.

Such nonsense from drama only a fool like Fan Tong would believe.

“Do you mean for Honglian to die?”

Mrs. Zhao couldn’t help wanting to slap Fan Tong.

Though Qinghe Bay’s customs restricted women, it wasn’t feasible to kill a woman who lost her reputation, at most, confine her at home or marry her off far away.

Fan Tong was going after Gu Honglian’s life.

Truly ruthless, not considering any marital affection.

“How could I let Honglian die? We are, after all, husband and wife; I must leave her a way to live. How about this, Honglian, divorce yourself. I won’t hold last night against you. After you voluntarily leave, I’ll tell my mother and the Fan Family that I abandoned you, and it’s all my fault, so your reputation would be intact.” Fan Tong straightened up.

He had no fears of the Gu Family.

If the Gu Family finds out he climbed up to Prince Ning, they might even want to curry favor with him.

He couldn’t say yet, but after moving to Prince Ning Mansion and becoming Prince Ning’s right-hand man, it would shock the entire Gu Family.

By the way, isn’t Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua running a shop?

Eventually, he would use Prince Ning’s influence to cause trouble for their shop, and just thinking about Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua lowering their proud heads to plead with him made him feel smug.

Tong Huaqiong said, “Should Gu Honglian thank you then?”

Fan Tong said, “With what happened last night, in our Fan Family, she would have been drowned or trapped in a pig cage. I’ve already granted leniency to Gu Honglian. You Gu women see chastity as nothing, I dare not take such women. If outsiders knew the Gu Family’s reputation, I’m afraid your daughters could never marry.”

Is this using the reputation of Gu women to threaten?

Gu Taohua and Gu Xiaoxue felt deeply insulted, who was he to judge them?

Two slaps rang out.

Fan Tong got slapped on both sides of his face.

It was a combined effort from Gu Taohua and Gu Xiaoxue.

Fan Tong wanted to fight back, but seeing the furious eyes of Gu Dashu and Gu Dahuan, he lowered his raised hand.

Gu Taohua and Gu Xiaoxue didn’t let Fan Tong off, dragging him to beat him up.

From head to toe, slapping and kicking non-stop.

Fan Tong’s howling voice changed.

Everyone silently drank tea, pretending not to see the violence in front of them.

Fan Tong’s ribs were broken in two places, there was a wound on his neck, and his whole body looked like a fish left stranded by ocean waves, barely alive.

If Gu Dashu weren’t afraid of beating Fan Tong to death, he would’ve gone in for a few more kicks.

Tong Huaqiong said, “Since you keep saying chastity is above life, and exposing an arm requires cutting it off, then quickly give yourself a death by a thousand cuts. After all, weren’t you seen naked tonight?”

Mrs. Zhao disdainfully said, “That’s right, we all saw it; that glaringly white behind, was it someone else’s?”

Tong Huaqiong sneered, “How come when it’s a woman, she must remain chaste, but when it comes to you, it doesn’t work? What isn’t this, if not double standards?”

Fan Tong squirming on the ground struggled, yet retorted, “She’s a woman, I’m a man, can men and women be the same?”

Tong Huaqiong was too lazy to argue with Fan Tong.

“Honglian, what do you think?” Tong Huaqiong asked.

Gu Honglian, being Fan Tong’s wife, could only resolve it as she wishes.

She indeed wanted Gu Honglian to divorce Fan Tong; if she were head over heels in love now, despite the intense fight, what if she forgave him in the end, wouldn’t her efforts be all in vain?

Tong Huaqiong had seen many such cases on some red potato in modern times, where a man cheats or goes astray, and the woman, annoyed, calls the police or blows it up at work. In the end, after her husband gets detention or fired, she blames the punishment for being too severe.

When asked, her main purpose in calling the police or blowing it up at work was to educate the husband to ensure he never does something that wrongs her again, so they could live happily thereafter.

Not to punish the husband.

Tong Pandi couldn’t help but say, “Aunt Honglian, what’s the use of such a man? He abandons you in times of trouble and throws mud at you when he sees you’re okay. Even the pigs at my pig farm are better than him, divorce him.”

Gu Honglian looked steadily at Tong Pandi.

Tong Pandi said, “Even if it’s difficult to divorce now, it couldn’t be harder than my experience back then.”

Mrs. Zhao slapped her thigh and said, “Honglian, Pandie is right. Although people say it’s better to tear down ten temples than one marriage, you must see what kind of person the other is. Some husbands are not even human but beasts. Continuing to live with him, he’ll only use yesterday’s matters to hold you down, what’s the point of that life.”

Gu Honglian wiped her tears and looked at Fan Tong.

She didn’t know if she should divorce.

Her parents weren’t around, no one to make decisions for her.

Gu Honglian looked at Tong Huaqiong anxiously, wanting her to make the decision, but Tong Huaqiong said nothing.

She then looked at Gu Dahuan, Gu Dashu, and Jingzhe.

Jingzhe spoke on behalf of the three brothers.

“Aunt, whatever decision you make, we support you.”