eurekapd Chapter 122: Always Being Ordered Around
Chapter 122: Always Being Ordered Around
One day, Su Yue spoke to Shen Yi alone, trying to understand the reason for his resistance. Shen Yunyan angrily said, "You women only know how to use your power to oppress men. I would rather die than surrender!"
Su Yue patiently explained: "Not all women are like you think. I am just forced by the rules."
Shen Yunyan sneered: "Who would believe your nonsense!" He turned his head away, his face full of disdain.
Su Yue took a deep breath and continued, "I know you have resentment in your heart, but during your time in my house, you have also seen that we are not as bad as you imagined." Shen Yunyan remained silent and remained unmoved.
Su Yue continued, "I'm not asking you to change your mind right away. I just hope you can get along with us calmly and slowly understand each other."
Shen Yunyan raised his eyes slightly, glanced at Su Yue, and snorted coldly: "So what? This can't change the domineering nature of the women from Mingxi Country." After that, he turned around and was about to leave.
Su Yue hurriedly stopped him, and said sincerely: "Shen Yunyan, give each other a chance, maybe you will find a different world."
Shen Yunyan stopped and hesitated for a moment, but finally shook off Su Yue's hand and strode away, leaving Su Yue standing there, sighing helplessly.
A few days later, Su Yue found Shen Yunyan again. She held a book of Mingxi Kingdom laws in her hand and handed it to Shen Yunyan: "Shen Yunyan, take a look at this law. The rules are not meant to oppress men, but rather, it's up to people to decide. Not all women will oppress men."
Shen Yunyan slammed the book away and said angrily, "Don't try to fool me with these things. The law is just a tool you women use to control men."
Su Yue picked up the book, her expression firm: "You are so stubborn and unwilling to understand the truth, how can you make such a statement?"
At this time, Liang Junze came over and said in a gentle voice: "Brother Shen Yunyan, our wife is really sincere and wants to get along well with you."
Shen Yunyan sneered and retorted, "You are naturally speaking for her."
Lin Yuxuan also came over and said anxiously: "You kid, you really don't know what's good for you. Yue'er has done so much for you, and you don't even appreciate it."
The scene fell into chaos for a moment. Su Yue shouted, "Stop arguing!" Everyone quieted down. Su Yue looked at Shen Yunyan, a trace of fatigue in her eyes. "Shen Yunyan, whether you believe it or not, I never intended to oppress you. I just hope that we can coexist peacefully."
After saying that, Su Yue turned and left, leaving Shen Yunyan standing there with a complicated expression.
Shen Yunyan has lived in a gloomy family since he was a child. His mother is an extremely aggressive and domineering woman.
In his memory, his mother would always yell at the top of her lungs, her piercing voice seemingly piercing his young heart. Every day, the house was filled with her yelling and scolding, as she beat and scolded his father without mercy.
My father always hid in the corner timidly, often with new scars on his body, and his eyes were full of fear and helplessness.
Young Shen Yunyan was no exception. His mother would vent her anger on him whenever she was unhappy. The hard slaps on his face burned him, and his mother's fierce eyes, like those of a demon, filled him with immense fear and despair.
Outside, my mother was also arrogant and unreasonable towards others. When she had an argument with a neighbor, she would put her hands on her hips and curse, without any regard for her image or the feelings of others.
Even when faced with some well-intentioned advice, she would think that others were deliberately provoking her, and would then escalate even further. Shen Yunyan looked at her mother's ferocious face, her heart filled with disgust and aversion.
What made Shen Yunyan even more heartbroken was that his mother had no compassion for her own child. When he was sick, his mother not only did not take good care of him, but instead thought he was troublesome and spoke harshly to him.
While other children could feel the warmth of their mothers' embrace, he received only indifference, beatings, and scolding. He had cried silently countless times at night, longing for a bit of care from his mother, even a gentle look or a soft greeting, but all this was just wishful thinking.
Growing up in such an environment, Shen Yunyan suffered great trauma to his heart.
He gradually developed a deep fear and disgust for women, believing that all women were as vicious, ruthless, and unreasonable as his mother. He built a high wall in his heart, refusing to get close to any woman and becoming defensive and hostile towards them.
It is precisely because of this that he showed such strong resistance when he was chosen by Su Yue.
As the days passed, although Shen Yunyan still had a bad attitude at Su Yue's house, the tolerance and care of Su Yue and others still penetrated into his heart unconsciously.
Whenever he lay alone in bed late at night, thinking back to Su Yue's sincere eyes and the attempts of others to get along with him, a trace of doubt would arise in his heart. Could it be that not all women are like his mother?
Once, Shen Yunyan accidentally injured his hand while working. When Su Yue saw it, she immediately bandaged it for him. Her movements were gentle, her eyes full of concern, and she kept muttering, "Why are you so careless? Does it hurt?"
At that moment, Shen Yunyan was in a trance for a moment, as if he saw the image of a completely different woman.
But soon, he forced himself to wake up and told himself that this was just an illusion.
However, these moments became more and more frequent, gradually accumulating. One day, Shen Yunyan saw Su Yue patiently reading a story to Yaoyao, her face filled with a gentle smile; he also saw her carefully mending Hanhan's clothes, her eyes full of love. These images repeatedly challenged his inner defenses, causing him to re-evaluate his views on women.
Su Yue was also very kind to each of her husbands. She never beat or scolded them, and even coaxed them and gave in to their wishes in everything. The most terrifying thing was that she sometimes listened to her husband's words.
Shen Yunyan saw all of this, and the shock in his heart was like a raging storm. In his past understanding, women always ordered men around and drove them around at will. How could there be someone as gentle and considerate as Su Yue, who always put her husband first in everything.
Once, Lin Yuxuan got angry over a trivial matter. Instead of scolding him, Su Yue patiently coaxed him until he burst into laughter.
Shen Yunyan watched from the side, his eyes wide, muttering to himself in disbelief: "How is this possible? How could a woman admit her mistake to a man?"
Another day, Gu Qingyan proposed an idea, and after Su Yue listened carefully, she unexpectedly adopted his suggestion. This shocked Shen Yunyan even more. He was filled with confusion: "It has always been the case that men obey women, but here it's the other way around?"
Whenever he saw Su Yue and her husbands interacting with each other in an equal, respectful, and loving manner, Shen Yunyan's inherent notion of women being superior to men would be strongly challenged. He began to unconsciously wonder if the ideas he had always held were actually correct.
This shock plunged Shen Yunyan into a state of deep bewilderment and confusion. On the one hand, his long-held beliefs were too ingrained to change easily; on the other, the reality before him made it impossible for him to maintain his unwavering faith in his beliefs. Amidst this conflicting struggle, cracks began to appear in his inner ice.
Perhaps, was she really being too extreme? Perhaps there were many different women in this world? But how could the prejudices and traumas formed over the years be easily erased? Shen Yunyan was caught in a deep conflict and struggle.