Quick Transmigration: Help! What to do when my husband is obsessed with love?

Chapter 28 Traditional Well-Behaved Ladies 1

At the banquet, the upper class held exquisite wine glasses and chatted amiably.

The cozy fireplace keeps the chill of late autumn out of the window, offering only comfort and warmth.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Mr. Wen, the host of the banquet, patted the microphone, becoming the focus of attention.

His expression seemed somewhat saddened: "With the country in turmoil, I have been busy saving the nation and have neglected my wife and son who were far away at home for twenty years. Fortunately, we are finally reunited now!"

He patted the arm of the cold-faced young man beside him and said with a smile, "I invited you all to my humble abode today to introduce my son, Wen Zhao."

As soon as he finished speaking, applause erupted throughout the room, as if everyone was happy for this touching scene of father and son reuniting.

This was the scene that Ling Yi witnessed upon arriving in this world.

The massive influx of global information overwhelmed her at that moment, but she had no time to pay attention to it.

She gazed intently at the young man in the crowd, her eyes filled with disbelief and immense joy.

stride, expression, movements, and breathing rhythm.

During the decades they lived together, Lingyi remembered everything about her lover clearly.

Even if he were in a different world, even if he had a different face, she could still recognize the soul beneath his appearance at a glance.

How could it be him?

How could someone she was supposed to have parted ways with forever after the last world reappear before her?

Ling Yi's fingertips trembled uncontrollably beneath her wide sleeves, as if in a dream, unable to believe that such a wonderful thing would happen to her.

"Poor Mr. Wen, having such a rustic and uncouth son, he'll probably be worried sick in the future." The noisy and annoying voice suddenly pulled her back to reality: "If you ask me, you should send him abroad to broaden his horizons, so that Young Master Wen doesn't become a frog in a well in this country."

Turning her gaze to the man holding a wine glass, whose expression was one of pity but whose eyes betrayed his undisguised jealousy, Ling Yi instantly identified him from the world's database.

Yu Zhengyang, her fiancé in this body.

The original owner, Ling Yi, was the daughter of Ling Zhengtai, a cloth merchant in Shanghai. She was betrothed to Yu Zhengyang, the only son of the Yu family, when she was young, but the wedding was delayed because he went abroad to study.

Having seen the dazzling world abroad, Yu Zhengyang believed he had embraced advanced ideas and began to despise the feudal dregs of traditional marriage.

After returning to China, he not only failed to fulfill his marriage agreement, but also frequented entertainment venues with dancers every day, which made headlines in tabloids and made him a well-known playboy.

The original owner intended to break off the engagement, but was severely reprimanded by her father for not adhering to the precepts for women and not cultivating the virtues of a woman.

The marriage is not going to be called off. The dowry will be increased by 20% so that your future husband will know that his father-in-law is kind and will give your family some convenience in business.

For the sake of harmony between the two families, you should marry him!

From then on, she had no choice but to hastily marry and live a married life where she had to serve her parents-in-law, endure her husband's disgust, and be bullied by her concubine.

When she died at the age of thirty, exhausted both physically and mentally, this woman, who had only seen the outside of the courtyard a few times, did not think of her father or her husband.

All she wanted was to see the outside world, to know what progress her husband talked about was like, and to ask why, despite her hard work and her husband's hedonistic lifestyle, she was considered ignorant and backward.

Today is the day when Ling Zhengtai brings Ling Yi to fawn over Yu Zhengyang, and it is also the day when Yu Zhengyang begins to humiliate her without any attempt to hide it.

This man, dressed in a sharp suit, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and an imported watch, looked quite respectable, but upon meeting his fiancée, who was dressed in an old-fashioned dress, he frowned and said:

Now that it's the Republic of China, why are you still parading around in old-fashioned clothes?

A woman of your old-fashioned ways is far inferior to Western women. You should learn from their boldness and ambition, and strive for progress.

I have never seen such a way of dressing up like a dumpling in the West. Only Chinese women would be so conservative and backward. It is the fault of the nation!

This guy's mouth reeks of foul odors. He's a traitor who has forgotten his roots, constantly spouting about how advanced the West is and how backward our country is. He truly embodies the essence of Western fascination.

The original owner had little formal education and rarely left home. The most knowledgeable person she had ever met was this "talented scholar" who had returned from studying abroad. After being humiliated by him, she went home and cried for several days, etching her inferiority complex into her heart, a feeling she never truly understood until her death.

Now, seeing this progressive man, who was so eager to dye his hair blonde to sever ties with China, talking about his time abroad again, Ling Yi said quietly, "If you look down on this country, why did you come back?"

The sudden sound made Yu Zhengyang turn around subconsciously, and he met Ling Yi's pale face and red lips, as well as her dark eyes that were devoid of any emotion.

The woman was dressed in an old-fashioned light blue dress, and her beautiful face, illuminated by the warm yellow light, made her look like a fairy who had stepped out of a supernatural tale.

Yu Zhengyang's hand holding the wine glass trembled, and he said irritably, "Why are you scaring people so quietly! You can scare people to death, you know that!"

Ling Yi spoke softly, "I'm asking you a question."

Why would he come back? Of course, it's because his father can no longer afford to pay for living expenses. He can't find a decent job outside, and he refuses to wash dishes. He's too poor to stay any longer!

However, he naturally couldn't say these things directly.

Tightening his tie, Yu Zhengyang stood tall and proud: "Naturally, it's to change this backward and impoverished country. Only by learning fully from the West can we possibly overcome the ills of feudal customs and backwardness!"

The way he held his neck up to the sky made it seem as if he were the savior of the country.

Ling Yi curled her lips: "Then wouldn't our marriage be considered part of feudal customs?"

Without hesitation, Yu Zhengyang replied, "Of course, arranged marriages are wrong. They go against human emotions and undermine the sanctity of marriage. Such decadent things would never happen in foreign countries!"

When his foreign country was mentioned, Yu Zhengyang's eyes lit up, and his voice became passionate.

Ling Yi interrupted his long-winded speech and asked directly, "Then why don't you protest to your family, cancel the engagement, and pursue your own advancement?"

The Ling family had more than a dozen concubines and numerous children, none of whom had any say in the matter.

Yu Zhengyang is the only male member of the Yu family, so Boss Yu will definitely take his words seriously.

Ling Yi believed that if he insisted on not accepting the engagement, Boss Yu would eventually break off the engagement no matter what.

Yu Zhengyang's expression froze. Instead of going along with Ling Yi's suggestion to break off the engagement, he spoke righteously: "Miss Ling has waited for me for so long, wasting her prime years. How could I dare to let her down?"

Moreover, while progressive women who are willing to freely fall in love with others may be fiery and exciting, they are not the type to tolerate others, and he doesn't want to cause unrest in the household.

Although Ling Yi, this traditional woman, is boring, old-fashioned, and somewhat unapproachable, she is the best person to manage the household.

As for social life? At worst, he can just take a few beautiful and socially adept concubines after marriage!

The so-called unwillingness to marry was nothing more than Yu Zhengyang's way of manipulating the Ling family and Ling Yi.