“Lu Yuanyuan, remember this—no matter that we’re divorced now, she is still your former sister-in-law. Show her some respect. She’s not inferior to you. She just wasn’t as fortunate as you to be born into an intellectual family, with parents willing to support her education. In fact, she’s smarter than you, more capable than you, and her achievements surpass yours.”
Lu Yuanyuan was just about to retort—what kind of achievements could an uneducated village girl possibly have?
But Lu Heng didn’t give her the chance to speak:
“You judge a person based on education and background without knowing the full story. So shallow and snobbish. All those years in university—wasted.”
“……” Lu Yuanyuan was stunned speechless by the harsh words.
Carrying his briefcase, Lu Heng turned and headed upstairs:
“Tomorrow, I’ll speak to your department head. I’ll remind him that his student has serious issues in thinking and needs proper ideological education. Otherwise, letting someone with such distorted values graduate into society will only corrupt the social atmosphere.”
“!!!!”
When he reached the stairs, Lu Heng suddenly turned back and corrected:
“Oh, and about the divorce—I’ll make this clear. She divorced me. It wasn’t that I wanted it.”
At the very end, his voice carried a trace of bitterness:
“I’m the one who was abandoned.”
“!!!!”
After saying that, Lu Heng turned and went upstairs.
Leaving the mother and daughter standing there, dumbfounded.
Lu Yuanyuan was so shocked by her brother’s last sentence that she even forgot to be angry.
What?
Her brother was the one who got abandoned?
How was that possible!!
That village woman had such ability—to abandon a dignified university professor?
Her brother must be talking nonsense!
Cheng Jin stared at her son’s figure disappearing around the stairway corner, stunned for a long while before letting out a long sigh and turning to her daughter:
“Well? After being scolded by your brother, do you feel better now?”
“Was he poisoned today or something?!”
“Learn your lesson—don’t bring up his previous marriage in front of him again.”
“She’s just a village woman! How is Qingyun inferior to some rural girl? Qingyun has a good personality, a good family background, she’s beautiful, educated, and accomplished. Our families know each other well—everything about them matches perfectly. So why is he so stubborn? Ignoring such a good woman just to dwell on an illiterate ex-wife? I was trying to help him, and he actually said my values were wrong? I’m so mad! So mad!”
“Alright, calm down. Go back to your room and get some sleep.”
But Lu Yuanyuan still couldn’t swallow her anger.
“For the sake of an outsider, he argued with me, his own sister! It’s infuriating! Since when did he become so petty?!”
Cheng Jin coaxed her daughter back into her room with much effort.
Then she made a cup of hot tea and brought it upstairs for her son.
To be honest, she had also been shocked by what her son said earlier.
She hadn’t expected that he was still thinking about his rural wife.
To defend that woman, he even said such harsh words to his own sister.
In truth, her son had never once taken the initiative to mention that marriage.
When he had first returned to the city, he hadn’t even told the family that he had gotten married on the farm—and then divorced.
They only learned about it from an educated youth in the residential compound.
That young man had been on the same farm as Lu Heng back then and knew he had gotten married there.
At first, the family didn’t believe it.
They couldn’t believe their son had gotten married without telling them—and then divorced before returning.
And after coming back, he never mentioned that marriage at all, as if it had never happened.
The family thought it was just a rumor.
So they asked Lu Heng directly.
In the end, Lu Heng admitted it.
He admitted that he had married a rural woman.
And then divorced her.
The whole family was stunned.