As the saying goes,"Ignorance can be forgiven". I will ask for forgiveness from Grandpa on her behalf, '
thought Zed.
Jesse didn't expect Jean to be the way she just acted out! A weird expression came over her face and she thought, 'Jean, you are done!
You have offended the most respectable man ever. No one has ever dared to talk to Grandpa Benjamin like that!
If it was like the old times, you must have been executed!'
Dan looked at Jean and admired her courage.
"You are pissing me off!" Benjamin tapped the floor violently with his walking stick. His eyes raged with anger, he glared at Jean and scolded,"How dare you talk to me like that? Do you wanna risk losing your neck?"
"Grandpa, I know that you once were in the military and you were a high-ranking official. But now that you have retired, you can't treat people younger than you the same old way. I know that I might not be qualified to talk to you like that, but as a senior, you insulted me first. You can't look down upon me and defame me as if I am nothing. Just because I don't have a strong family background that you are insulting me like this?"
Jean spoke for herself reasonably.
"It seems that you still have some self-knowledge," Benjamin said sternly.
"I know myself well and I know who I am," replied Jean, with a bitter smile on her face.
"If you are so clear about yourself, why are you so stubborn? Didn't you know that I will dislike you even more after you replied to me rudely?" Benjamin roared at her.
"Grandpa, even if I seal my lips and stay silent, you still won't like me. Since there is no way you will ever like me, and you always thought that I don't deserve Zed, why don't I just clear myself then?" Jean sighed, a grave expression on her face.
"Are you defending yourself?" Benjamin laughed grimly. He replied,"Are you saying that I am being unfair to you?"
"Grandpa, you disliked me at first sight and just now you asked Zed to divorce me. Do you think you are being fair to me?" Jean asked while she looked at Benjamin bravely.
Benjamin was stunned. He
Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex. To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him. "As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses.”She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women...
to divorce me the moment he saw you? Even if I was tolerating until then, I couldn't anymore." Jean pouted at him.
"I know you got mad. But I am happy for what you did," Zed looked at his wife and smiled.
"I offended grandpa. You are not blaming me but actually feeling happy about it?" Jean couldn't believe what Zed just said and she looked into Zed's eyes.
"What I am happy about is that you get angry if anyone asks us to divorce. It means that you value our marriage very much. But, Jean, even if Grandpa did the wrong thing, we shouldn't disrespect him. After all, he is 80 years old and he is our Grandpa, we should respect him. So, don't be that rude when you answer him back the next time, okay?" Zed tried to persuade Jean patiently.
"I get it!" Jean nodded in agreement. "Actually I regretted what I just said as soon as I split it out. I feel guilty."
"It's okay! Now don't think too much. I suppose that Grandpa won't irritate you next time by asking me to divorce you. You should behave well in front of him to earn his satisfaction so that he accepts you. For the sake of our happiness, I believe you can do it!" Zed tried to cheer her up.
"Okay, I will!" Jean was much more confident now and she nodded quickly.
"Hey, you two! Will you get in the car or not? What are you both talking about?" said Benjamin sternly in the car. He had run out of patience.