"Your son has weak sperm syndrome. The chances of him conceiving a child are lower than winning the lottery!"
"It was your son who begged me not to reveal this. For the sake of his male pride and dignity, I kept it secret and took the blame. I never expected you, you old hag, and those relatives to curse me behind my back every day!"
"And you! You useless coward!"
"You have no sense of responsibility as a man!"
"To hell with in vitro fertilization! I'm done with it! Old woman, your family line is going to end! Your throne will have no heir! Let's get a divorce!"
The wife's furious outburst, after reaching her breaking point, made the older woman's head spin.
She gaped, unable to utter a word for a long while.
Her son had weak sperm syndrome?
It wasn't her who was ill, but her son?
How could this be? How could this be?!
Meanwhile, the ancient people watching the livestream were thunderstruck.
Then, chaos erupted among them.
The citizens of the old city wondered to themselves: What does weak sperm syndrome mean? Could there really be men in this world who can't have children? Isn't it always the women who are at fault?
From the wife's sarcastic and composed face, the old city residents could guess that this inability to conceive, this weak sperm syndrome, should... perhaps... maybe be the man's problem?
It wasn't the wife's fault after all?
However, the citizens of the new city completely ignored the young woman's latter words. In their fixed mindset, only women could be infertile!
How could there be men who couldn't father children?
The new city residents immediately started cursing: "How can this woman be so fierce? She even dares to talk back to her husband. Such a woman should be discarded!"
"If she can't bear children, how can she even be considered a woman? She's just a hen that doesn't lay eggs. The scolding is justified!"
"The most honorable thing in a woman's life is to bear children. She's so unvirtuous. If I couldn't conceive, I would have already found some fertile concubines for my husband."
"A woman who can't bear children might as well be dead. What's the use of spending so much money on medical treatment?"
Various insults continuously reached Gu Sang's ears through the livestream.
Many, many years ago, the shame of infertility was almost always blamed on women. How could the noble men of ancient times possibly be ill?
Impossible!
Even if it were possible, no man would admit it!
Gu Sang's lips twitched, revealing a mocking smile. She was just short of elegantly rolling her eyes: "Weak sperm syndrome affects conception. It's a problem with the man himself."
"Nonsense!!" Ancient people immediately retorted.
"Having children is clearly a woman's issue. What does it have to do with men?"
"What's this weak sperm syndrome? We've never heard of it!"
"That's right. What kind of place are you from? It's bad enough that you dress so strangely, but for women to shamelessly appear in public? It's outrageous!"
"..."
Gu Sang's face turned cold, utterly speechless.
It was precisely because of this terrible mindset that if a first wife remained childless for years, everyone would curse her for being unfilial and unable to bear children.
Yet not once did anyone curse the man for being unable to make his wife conceive!
Gu Sang laughed coldly: "Just because you haven't heard of it means it doesn't exist?"
"You say having children has nothing to do with men? So you can impregnate women just by looking at them? Why insist on raising your own bloodline? Isn't raising someone else's child just as good?"
"Whether the child is biological or not doesn't matter, since having children has nothing to do with you men!"
These outrageous words left all the ancient people from the new city dumbfounded: "You! You, you!!"
"Me, me, me? What about me!"
"Our future medical science is so advanced that it can help families who struggle to conceive through technology. We can do in vitro fertilization!"
"Even childbirth complications that would be life-threatening in your time – severe bleeding, twins, triplets – can all be safely managed in our major hospitals!"
"Backward medical knowledge isn't scary. What's truly frightening is stubborn ignorance, refusing to accept new knowledge just to protect male pride!"
"Women are willing to risk their lives to bear children for you. Not only are you ungrateful, but you're also picky, oppressive, insulting, disdainful, and suppressive. It's disgusting!"
Gu Sang's tirade left the ancient people from the new city utterly defeated.
The crowd was furious at Gu Sang's words.
They wanted to argue back, but when they looked up, they saw the mother-in-law, who had been so arrogant moments ago, suddenly deflate after her son admitted it was his own problem.
Just a second earlier, she had been fiercely demanding her son divorce and remarry.
The next second, the mother-in-law was all smiles, carefully trying to please her daughter-in-law, apologizing profusely, humbling herself, and tearfully begging the woman not to divorce her son.
Witnessing this scene, the ancient people from the new city were left completely blank.
Meanwhile, the old city residents became even more convinced that the inability to have children could very well be the man's problem, not always the woman's fault.
At this moment, among the crowds shown in the eight split screens, dozens of women were secretly wiping away tears.
Ancient women wept: "So it turns out that infertility isn't always my fault. It could be that the man can't father children."
"Sob... You see? If your mother insults me again, I'll divorce you and remarry. We'll see if it's you who can't have children or me."
"No, darling, don't be rash. I'll talk to my mother when I get back. I promise she'll never say anything like that to you again."
In the hospital corridor, the wife who had been covering for her husband's infertility was coldly smirking at her fawning mother-in-law.
She then looked at her husband, who was red-faced and gazing at her with a mix of resentment and sadness in his eyes.
She saw through it all! This kind of man doesn't deserve a wife!
Apologize? Too late!
The divorce was settled. She wasn't willing to put her body through in vitro fertilization, enduring all that pain and suffering, only to receive a few words of gratitude from her husband in the end!
The wife spat in disgust, grabbed her bag, and walked away.
Gu Sang, seeing that it was about time, returned to Chen Yun's hospital room. Just as she was about to open the door, she heard a young man's voice from inside.
The man's tone carried a hint of impatience: "How can you be so incompetent? You even managed to fall down an escalator while shopping!"
"I've told you before to cut ties with Lin Lin."
"That kind of relationship takes two to tango. In less than a year, she's spent over 200,000 yuan of her boyfriend's money. Who treats their partner like an ATM when dating? She's nothing but a gold-digger!"
"And now you're losing sleep studying law because of her issues. You're not that bright to begin with; it's a miracle you managed to graduate. What's gotten into you, suddenly wanting to study law?"
Gu Sang heard these words crystal clear: "..."
Why did those words sound so grating to the ear?
What did they mean by "ATM"?
Not only had Lin Lin not spent that much money, but she had also reciprocated with gifts. How could this be called wasteful materialism?
Soon after.
Chen Yun's voice came from inside, though quiet, it was filled with determination: "Enough!"
"Do you know how disgusting that He Linpeng is? He even keeps the receipt for buying Lin Lin a bottle of mineral water."
