Luo Yanming opened his eyes with a groan. A cacophony of concerned voices entered his ears, annoying him.
"My son, you are finally awake!" Madam Luo exclaimed while holding Luo Yanming's left hand.
"Brother Luo! Brother Luo, I was so afraid!" Hong Yinling's eyes were glassy with unshed tears. She clutched Luo Yanming's right hand to her chest.
Luo Yanming blinked several times to adjust his eyes to the bright light in the hospital ward.
"Mom? Yinling? What happened to me? Where is this?"
Luo Yanming pushed himself off the bed, trying to get into a sitting position, but both women pushed him back onto the bed.
"Yanming, don't move around yet. Your demonic ex-wife poisoned you!"
Luo Yanming widened his eyes in disbelief.
"Ruoye? Ruoye poisoned me?"
"It's true, Brother Luo. We cut two slices of the cake she left behind, do you still remember? You ate one bite, and then you started coughing violently. Your entire face turned purple. I was so scared..."
Hong Yinling sobbed into a handkerchief in such a pitiful manner that outsiders might think that she had just lost a husband.
Madam Luo extended a hand to her future daughter-in-law and said with a soothing voice, "Thankfully, Yinling was there to save you. I can't believe it. Such a merciless, cruel, black-hearted witch Fang Ruoye is!"
To tell the truth, Madam Luo did not like Fang Ruoye from the moment she set her eyes on the younger woman.
Sure, Fang Ruoye appeared to be a loving and dedicated spouse, but in the end it was her son, Luo Yanming, who built his company from scratch and allowed Fang Ruoye to live a glamorous life as a regular housewife.
Now that Luo Yanming had found his true love and asked for an amicable divorce, Fang Ruoye was actually cruel enough to poison Luo Yanming!
In this world, which mother would not feel pain when her child was taken to a hospital?
"Maybe Ruoye didn't know that there was peanut butter inside the cake," Luo Yanming muttered dryly. After all, they had been married for seven years already. Fang Ruoye was not the kind of person who would do things like that. She had always been a silent supporter by Luo Yanming's side.
"How can she not know? Of course she knows," Hong Yinling snapped impatiently. "When you passed out, Brother Luo, I texted her twenty times and called her ten times! But she ignored all my texts and calls. She was not at all concerned about you. A day has already passed. If she truly did not mean it, she would have texted back."
Madam Luo could not agree more.
"That's right! Son, you did well by divorcing Fang Ruoye. That woman is nothing compared to our Yinling here."
Madam Luo, who hailed from a patriarchal family, had always placed great importance on a woman's ability to giving birth to a son. She herself was very proud of her son.
In Madam Luo's opinion, this great son of his deserved a woman who gave him anything and everything he needed!
So how could Madam Luo be satisfied with a barren woman like Fang Ruoye???
Sure, she gave birth to a cute daughter, but a daughter was still a daughter, incomparable to a son!
"Mom, you are right," Luo Yanming said. "Ruoye is usually very meticulous and careful when tending to the houseworks. She is not the kind of person who will make such mistakes. To think that she tries to kill me on my birthday..."
Luo Yanming shook his head in disbelief.
"Good that heaven bestowed me Yinling. What is the point of being a devoted husband to Ruoye all these years?"
His mother and mistress could not agree more.
"Also, Brother Luo, do you know?" Hong Yinling lifted her eyes, her eyelashes quivering from suppressed grievances. "The food she cooked... All of them were spicy. My stomach can't take spicy foods. What if... What if the baby is affected?"
Luo Yanming flew into rage the moment he heard Hong Yinling's words.
"What! She dared to harm my unborn son! Fang Ruoye... Just you wait!"
Madam Luo stepped aside to allow the couple some private time.
Outside the ward, she opened Tiktok and began shooting a video.
"Friends and family members, I want to tell you something."
Driven by her crooked sense of justice, this elderly woman wanted to give her ex daughter-in-law a kick in the face.
"From today on, our Luo family no longer recognizes Fang Ruoye as my daughter-in-law. This black-hearted woman actually poisoned my son on his birthday!"
Madam Luo howled bitterly and wiped the non-existent tears from her eyes.
"I am so heartbroken. Thankfully, a good and beautiful woman came to my son's rescue. Friends and family members, they are probably getting married soon!"
Like a BPD patient, Madam Luo cast away the dark clouds and bloomed like the morning sun.
"I will tell you more about my future daughter-in-law in my next update! Hey, Madam Du, Madam Chen, I am watching you! Don't you dare seduce my future daughter-in-law!"
The post was sent onto the social platform and reached Madam Luo's followers.
Before long, netizens came down like a wake of vultures and flooded her post with comments.
"How cruel! A wife poisoning her husband on his birthday!"
"I thought that this kind of women went extinct when the Imperial Era ended! Just who the hell does she think she is?"
"Her name is Fang Ruoye. Everyone, let us ruin her life! Make her unable to leave home again!"
The barrage of hateful comments made Madam Luo smile smugly.
Fang Ruoye, she said in her heart, you are going to pay for your crime!