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Early the next morning, I was awakened by a message on my phone.
I quickly picked it up to see, and it turned out my father-in-law had pinned a notice in all the family and relatives' groups.
[From today onwards, Li Ping and her daughter Chu Wenwen are severing all ties with us. Whether they live or die is none of our concern. This announcement is hereby made for everyone's information!]
Every group had 99+ messages.
I casually opened one of them and saw his chat records with the relatives.
[Wenwen has leukemia. If she dies, so be it, but she is morally blackmailing her brother into donating bone marrow.]
As soon as this was said, someone in the relatives immediately stood up to speak for me.
[Donating bone marrow isn't a big deal, surely we can't just watch Wenwen die, can we?]
[I don't think Li Ping wants to morally blackmail anyone, she just wants her daughter to live.]
[Poor Wenwen, having to suffer from such a disease at such a young age, she truly is unfortunate.]
Seeing the public opinion turning towards sympathizing with Wenwen, my father-in-law quickly spoke up.
[I'm just reminding everyone, donating bone marrow has risks and can harm the donor's health.]
[If she asks any of you for a match, it has nothing to do with us.]
With that said, the relatives who had been sympathizing with Wenwen suddenly fell silent.
No one wanted the burden of donating bone marrow to fall on themselves.
Looking at these chat records, I laughed.
It's like being given a pillow when you're sleepy. I was thinking about how to further expose their ugly behavior, and I directly replied in the group: [Wenwen is also a child of the Chu family, Mom and Dad. If you don't want to save her, fine, but why not let others help? Doing so is forcing Wenwen to her death.]
In the next second, my sister-in-law spoke in the group.
[Fear of risk and trying to avoid harm is human nature. After all, everyone has their own family and career. If something happens to their health, it could be catastrophic for a family.]
[If it were my Chenchen with leukemia, I'd rather give up treatment than burden everyone.]
[True relatives do not burden each other.]
The group was immediately filled with voices praising my sister-in-law for her moral clarity.
Seeing her righteous words, I laughed even more.
I wonder if she'll be so selfless when she receives her son's diagnosis report tomorrow.
Amid the scolding and ridicule, I closed the group chat, then saved all the chat records.
In the Chu family living room, seeing that I was no longer speaking, my father-in-law still felt it wasn't safe to just drive me out of the Chu family.
After thinking for a moment, he said to Chu Ping, "Son, you should divorce Li Ping!"
"This kind of disease is a bottomless pit. Even if cured, it requires endless money. We can't all end up begging just for one girl, can we?"
My mother-in-law also comforted, "It's just as well to get divorced. After all these years, she hasn't even given you a son, just this worthless girl, who also has an incurable disease like leukemia."
"Living with a woman like this will only drag you down!"
"Once you divorce, I'll find you a better wife!"
Chu Ping nodded.
"You're right, we can't let one girl drag the whole family down! This divorce has to happen!"
Chu Ping immediately typed out a text message and sent it to me.
[If you insist on saving Wenwen, then let's divorce. Tomorrow morning at ten, meet me at the Civil Affairs Bureau. I give up custody of the child, and from now on, everything about Chu Wenwen will have nothing to do with me.]
Seeing this message, I was relieved.
I didn't expect that they would be in such a hurry.
"Wenwen, no one can hurt you in this life again."
After calming down, I replied to him with a single word: [Okay]