Switched Marriage: The Coddled Little Wife-Chapter 377: How Could It Be Like This? Why Is It Like This?

Chapter 377: Chapter 377: How Could It Be Like This? Why Is It Like This?

After buying groceries, Qin Yang and she walked home side by side, chatting casually along the way.

This trip to Ancheng, Chuxia faced many issues, and Qin Yang was very concerned.

He heard that Ancheng Food Factory was planning to reform its shareholding system and wanted to involve Lin Chuxia, but he was not optimistic about it.

In his view, his wife’s abilities and skills were more than enough to handle things on her own.

With the current favorable market policies and conditions, his wife already owned Xiyang Food Factory and the Bun Shop. Following her own plans and pace would be perfectly fine, there was no need for her to get involved in this messy situation.

Although becoming a shareholder of Ancheng Food Factory might enhance their status and reputation, both he and his wife didn’t care about such things.

Both of them were practical and purpose-driven, not chasing after hollow fame.

While they were talking, they suddenly saw a crowd gathered ahead, and could hear cursing coming from the crowd.

Life was quite dull these days, and people enjoyed watching the excitement of fights.

This was an unavoidable path for them, Lin Chuxia and Qin Yang planned to bypass the crowd from behind, but then they heard the hysterical voice of a woman from within the crowd.

"Li Guangyuan, I take care of the elderly and raise your son at home, and this is how you treat me? You said you had nothing to do with her anymore, what’s happening now? I trusted you so much, each time you said you were coming to the city to find work, I never doubted you, this month you didn’t earn money, and I even felt sorry for you, but you were not here to find work at all, you were here to be with this vixen."

"You ungrateful creature, have you forgotten who gave you the money to start your business? How can you do this to me and still have a conscience..."

Through the crowd, Lin Chuxia saw Lin Jiayi and Li Guangyuan standing opposite her.

Behind Li Guangyuan stood a woman in her thirties, looking indifferent as she watched Lin Jiayi crying and holding the child.

The child was already frightened, his face covered with tears and snot, his cheeks red from the cold wind.

"Have you made enough fuss? I’ve already told you, I have nothing to do with her. Look at you now, go back home at once, stop making a fool of yourself here."

Li Guangyuan, surrounded by the pointing crowd, looked dishonored.

Lin Jiayi didn’t care, she had always been in the village, but he had to set up a stall and do business in the city.

There were quite a few familiar faces in the crowd.

"Making a fool of myself?" Lin Jiayi incredulously pointed at herself, "You did something shameless and you say I’m making a fool of myself? Let everyone judge, I stay home to raise our child while you mess around with her outside, and in the end, it turns out I’m the shameless one, how is this fair?"

Tian Cuixia spoke disdainfully, "Sister, you can eat whatever you want, but you shouldn’t talk nonsense. What do you mean by messing around? Which of your eyes saw me messing around with him?"

Lin Jiayi was infuriated by her words.

Did she need to see with her own eyes?

She had secretly followed Li Guangyuan here today and saw the two of them embracing each other. Given a little more time, who knows what they would have done, and yet she had the audacity to deny it.

"You wretched woman, seducing someone else’s husband, I will tear you apart..."

Lin Jiayi screamed and rushed forward, reaching out to grab Tian Cuixia.

There was no need for Tian Cuixia to dodge, Li Guangyuan held her back forcefully and flung her aside, "Have you made enough fuss? Get lost! Mind your own business."

Lin Jiayi staggered several steps from being thrown, just about to retort when she caught a glance of a familiar figure in the corner of her eye, instinctively looked again, and saw Lin Chuxia in a woolen coat.

She could hardly remember how long it had been since she last saw Lin Chuxia. Every time she saw her, she seemed different.

Dressed in a wool coat rare for that era, paired with a high-necked cashmere sweater inside, wide-legged trousers, and shiny leather shoes.

Her skin was even more delicate and luminous than before her marriage, her long black hair tied in a ponytail, she did not look like a married woman, more like a vibrant university student.

This version of Lin Chuxia is just like the one from her memory, a decade or two later.

So unattainable, so dazzling.

Then she looked at herself – still wearing the same old cotton-padded jacket from when she got married, stained beyond recognition with her child’s milk, saliva, and snot.

Her pants too were old cotton pants from before; after having the child, she gained weight around the waist and altered them herself. Unable to find fabric of the same color, the patched area was even just a piece of rough cotton cloth.

Not to mention her hair and skin.

They owed the deli so much money over the years that, even when she just had a baby, her mother-in-law hurried her to work in the fields before her confinement period was over.

Wind and sun dried and cracked her skin, her hair frayed and yellowed at the ends.

She was barely two years older than Lin Chuxia, yet she looked like she was more than a decade older.

Lin Jiayi looked at Lin Chuxia standing before her and even forgot about Li Guangyuan behind her, her teeth itching with hatred.

Why is it like this? How could this happen?

She had already married Li Guangyuan, stolen her life, so why was she still like this, even worse off than her previous life married into the Qin Family?

The Qin Family, though cold-hearted and merciless, with that stepson being a thankless wretch, at least they did not shortchange her life.

Lin Jiayi felt an urge to rush up and bite her, "Lin Chuxia, I didn’t expect you to come enjoy the spectacle. Wait, that’s not like you. You just came to revel in my misery, didn’t you? Are you happy to see me like this?"

Lin Chuxia: "..."

What a misunderstanding. She had merely wanted to pass by quietly; who would have guessed that Lin Jiayi would suddenly be pushed out by Li Guangyuan.

However, seeing her like this did give her a bit of schadenfreude.

Li Guangyuan was never a good sort, slick and sly, womanizing was in his nature.

But before Lin Chuxia could say anything, Qin Yang pulled her behind him, his brows furrowing as he coldly said, "Who are you that we must constantly remember? The road is right here; you’re the ones blocking it."

With that, he took Lin Chuxia’s hand and they left.

The Lin Family, every one of them is like a mad dog; you never know when they’ll come biting at you in some way or another, better to quickly take his wife and leave.

Lin Jiayi, seeing Qin Yang suddenly appear, stared in disbelief.

How has he come back again?

And with Lin Chuxia?

And carrying groceries?

Recalling that Qin Yang was now transferred to the city, and Lin Chuxia had also moved there to live with him, their returning together to visit their parents seemed entirely natural.

Yet even such a reasonable situation felt absurd to Lin Jiayi.

Who is Qin Yang? A cold-hearted animal who only knew work, when did he ever have family in his eyes?

Thinking about how this man treated her in the past life and seeing the two of them now so close, Lin Jiayi suddenly yelled out.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, it shouldn’t be like this, Lin Chuxia, it shouldn’t be like this..."

Sobbing uncontrollably, she squatted down, clutching her crying child in her arms.

Qin Yang was always on guard against her; hearing her shriek Lin Chuxia’s name, he frowned, looked back and said, "What does she mean?"