"Then kneel here for a day and a night." Ms. Francis, his mother, said without mercy.
"Mom..." Alesha wanted to plead for mercy, but was abruptly stopped by Ms. Francis, "Do you want your husband to continue to suppress you and not listen to you? Or do you want him to keep lying whenever he wants to achieve something, like this time?"
Alesha remained silent...
"Then let him kneel here," she said, and then left the ancestral temple with Alesha.
"This is what you deserve." Mr. Francis, his father, also snorted coldly, watching Shawn Francis kneel down again before leaving the ancestral temple with his wife and daughter-in-law.
Shawn knelt upright. He feared that he could no longer bypass this issue and it must be addressed. However, deep down he knew that his parents had not said anything excessively harsh to Alesha, which indicated to him that they have stopped opposing their marriage.
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