Chen's mother widened her eyes in shock, yanking her hand away in anger. "You think you can just decide to get married without asking for my opinion?" she demanded.
She slammed the door shut before Si Chengye had a chance to speak.
She could accept their current harmonious way of getting along, but she could not accept becoming husband and wife with him. He did have a wife, who was already dead, but she was still his wife.
She did not want to take Liao Xu's place, nor did she want to become Si Xi's stepmother.
Most importantly, she was Chen Zhi's mother, and Chen Zhi was Si Chengye's daughter-in-law. How could she marry her own in-law, and if word of this spread, she would surely be laughed at.
She was not afraid of being laughed at, but she did not want others to laugh at Chen Zhi. Because the fear of people's tongues is mighty, and they would certainly say they, mother and daughter, had ensnared father and son.
