Step Aside, My CEO Ex-Husband! Chapter 1144 - 1146: Unable to Stand Up

"If I didn’t agree with you being together, I would have told your dad the day I found out."

"Mom, I’m sorry..." Tianxin cried, collapsing into her mother’s embrace, offering an apology. In truth, she harbored resentment towards her mother these past few days.

She was truly so ungrateful.

"Tianxin, you must remain strong, alright? No matter what transpires, you cannot yield." Tian Xingyun held her daughter, gently stroking her hair.

"Mm, Mom, I will be strong!" Tianxin nodded with all sincerity.

"Get up quickly and have some water."

"Mom, I can’t get up!" Tianxin pulled away from her mother’s embrace, stubbornly shaking her head.

Her love for Brother Ziyang was absolute, and having violated the family rules, she had to accept the consequences.

Without her father’s command, she absolutely would not rise!

Even if her knees were to be scraped raw, she would not stand!

"Drink some water."

"Okay." Tianxin nodded. She only dared to drink water, refraining from standing up.

Tian Xingyun picked up the cup and offered it to Tianxin. Just then, a shadow stretched in their peripheral vision, drawing nearer.

The sound of approaching footsteps reached their ears. Tian Xingyun quickly brought the cup to Tianxin’s lips, feeding her water.

Tianxin opened her mouth and swallowed two large gulps, her eyes filled with apprehension as she observed Huo Shaohua drawing closer.

"Bang~" The cup slipped from Tian Xingyun’s grasp, plummeting to the ground and shattering into fragments.

"What do you think you’re doing?! Tianxin hasn’t consumed anything all day!" Tian Xingyun rose in anger, addressing Huo Shaohua.

"I declared she is forbidden to eat or drink! She may eat and drink only when she admits her transgression!" Huo Shaohua bent down to retrieve the remnants Tian Xingyun had dropped, and with his other hand, he seized her, initiating their departure.

Tianxin remained kneeling, motionless, too afraid to stir. Her legs had gone numb, rendering her incapable of moving.

Even the slightest shift resulted in agonizing torment.

She could only watch, helpless, as her father forcibly escorted her mother out of the ancestral hall.

Huo Shaohua dragged Tian Xingyun from the ancestral hall, discarding the food onto the floor with disdain.

He released Tian Xingyun after issuing a chilling decree, "Never again bring food to Tianxin, lest you too find yourself confined within the ancestral hall!"

"Go ahead and do it! If you starve your wife and daughter, you are free to seek a new one!" Tian Xingyun retorted fiercely, deeming his actions excessive!

Even allowing Tianxin a sip of water, he broke the cup; was such heartlessness truly necessary?!

"What preposterous nonsense is this woman spouting!" Huo Shaohua’s countenance flushed crimson with fury, finding her words utterly nonsensical.

Bringing up the child’s issue, and now implicating him...

"It is the unvarnished truth! You’ve been eager to replace your wife, and with Tianxin in this predicament, you’re seizing this chance to devise a pretext for separation. Do not assume I am unaware of your clandestine meeting with Song Yi a few days ago!"

"Cease this incessant chatter! Return to your chamber and remain there, or face the consequences should you dare to attend to Tianxin again!" Huo Shaohua, tired of further discourse, clasped her hand and pulled her away.

Huo Shaohua escorted Tian Xingyun back to their quarters, strictly forbidding her from leaving!

As dawn broke the following day.

Huo Shaohua entered the ancestral hall to find Tianxin asleep upon the cold floor.

Observing his daughter’s curled form on the ground, a pang of deep regret resonated within his heart.

However, he did not revert to his former habit of helping her up. Instead, he retrieved the family rod and positioned himself beside her.

He roared, "Huo Tianxin, who granted you permission to sleep! Rise at once and assume your proper kneeling posture!"

His voice reverberated through the ancestral hall, causing Tianxin, still on the floor, to shudder and snap her eyes open.

A fleeting expression of panic crossed her features. Upon recognizing her father, she hastily resumed her kneeling position, trembling with fear.

Her already swollen knees struck the floor once more, forcing her to clench her teeth against the searing pain.

Her parched lips parted, and in a voice raspy and weak, she uttered, "Dad..."

"I commanded you to kneel, how dare you secretly slumber!" Huo Shaohua raised the wooden implement and delivered a sharp blow to Tianxin’s back.

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This is not considered abuse, is it? Xiao Ning cannot write abuse... Brother Yang will be back tomorrow~