Aunt Tong could not believe that her son was actually going against her for a woman. She was the one who had raised him since he was a child, and now that he had grown up, he was actually fighting with her for a woman who did not even care about him in the slightest. She was the one who cared for him the most!

"Mom!" Tong Yan snapped at once. What he wanted was Han Ruochen and not someone else. Did his mother think that he was a little kid who would get happy just because he got another toy instead of the one that he wanted? Since he wanted Han Ruochen, he would only be satisfied if he got the woman he wanted. "Mom, I don’t want anyone else. I just want Han Ruochen. You have to bring her to me and let me marry her."

Tong Yan was so used to throwing tantrums and getting what he wanted that he did not see anything wrong with his actions. In fact, he thought that he looked quite sassy while acting like a spoiled brat.

Only his sisters-in-law rolled their eyes at him furtively. This man really thought that he was some sunny and warm-looking young man, did he not? But in truth, with his flabby stomach and acne-filled face, Tong Yan looked like a walrus who seemed to have gone crazy.

And their mother-in-law was even more wonderful. She actually said that Tong Yan could make any woman his wife as long as he wanted. They knew that in the eyes of their mother-in-law, Tong Yan was a rare and precious gem, but that did not mean that everyone else thought the same. No decent girl in the village would dare to marry Tong Yan, as his reputation was in slumps. If Tong Yan could get a woman from a decent family to marry him, they would shave their heads and become nuns!

Aunt Tong, on the other hand, felt like she could not breathe. She said to her son angrily, "Have you lost your mind? You are actually threatening your mother for the sake of a woman?" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"I don’t care!" Tong Yan knew that as long as he acted like a little brat, his mother would do anything. "I told you that I like her and I want to marry her. So you need to do something and make me get married to her."

After he finished speaking, he turned around on his feet and walked inside the house. He did not care about what her mother was thinking at the moment. He only wanted to marry Han Ruochen, and he did not care about how or what his parents would have to do to get him married to Han Ruochen.

"That...That...that boy!" Aunt Tong felt her head hurt when she saw how stubborn her son was being. How could he talk to her like that? She was the one who had raised him to be so big and strong. How could he speak to her in that tone?

Aunt Tong anxiously turned to her old man and asked, "What should we do now?"

Old Man Tong was smoking a pipe in quick puffs when he heard the question of his wife. He glared at her and said to her, "You are the one who made him stubborn like this. Who asked you to dote on him to the point that he stopped caring about right and wrong? Now look at the good thing you have done. That boy doesn’t even listen to us, and we are his parents."

Old Man Tong also had nothing against Han Ruochen becoming his daughter-in-law. After all, Han Yichen was a rich man. The dowry that Han Yichen would arrange for his daughter, plus the savings that Han Ruochen would bring to their house, would be really grand. With that alone, they would be able to live a good life. But if Han Ruochen was not willing, then what was the point in even trying to force her? It was clear that she had no intention of marrying his son.

"You are blaming me now?" Aunt Tong was so angry that she trembled. She looked at her husband and said, "For whom am I doing this? Isn’t it because I want to make sure that Ah Yan will live a good life? How can you turn around and blame me for doing something that will help us all in the end?"

"Alright, stop fighting!" Just as the two of them were about to start a quarrel, Feng He intervened between the two of them. She said coldly, "There is no point in getting angry at one another. For now, let’s set this matter aside for the time being and deal with it later on. For now, just let Zhaodi follow Han Ruochen. We don’t need to be in a hurry when it comes to matters of the third brother’s marriage. We can always think of a solution later on."

Only then did the two old people stop quarrelling. However, Aunt Tong was still breathing hard. She pursed her lips and then said in a low voice, "There is no need to worry. I will let Zhaodi follow her for the time being and then ask her to quit. I don’t believe that Han Ruochen will accept Yan’er if she has a lot of work and no one to help her."

Aunt Tong’s eyes flashed viciously. Han Ruochen was good at hunting seafood; it wouldn’t take long for her to start getting busier. She did not believe that if she forced Tong Zhaodi to resign when Han Ruochen was the busiest, that woman would still refuse to let her Yan’er work for her. She would definitely hire her son for a few days and then – humph – she would make him permanent.

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Han Ruochen did not have any idea that Aunt Tong was still scheming against her; she was currently steering her boat toward the Black Trench. A forbidden zone where no novice fisherman would ever dare to go. Even the skilled fishermen would think twice before coming to this zone.