After taking care of what she needed and fully recovering her health, Ding Yun finally had the leisure to start creating. In a short while, men of all sorts and types stood around her: refined, delicate, rugged, cute, ranging from uncle age to puppy age.
Ding Yun was quite benevolent.
She created some of each type of quality man.
Of course, here, "quality" primarily referred to appearance and physique. Personality and other aspects involved the soul, which she hadn't created yet. Therefore, the men currently standing beside her were merely empty shells, possessing bodies but no souls.
They were like walking dead.
Oh, no, even their bodies were virtual.
More accurately, they were a pile of holographic models.
After creating thousands of men, Ding Yun originally intended to bestow souls upon them. However, a dilemma arose: what kind of souls should she bestow? Should she grant them pure, blank souls, allowing them to perceive the world and grow like infants, or should she directly endow them with souls that already possessed certain personalities?
The former would be quite troublesome.
It would be like raising children, slowly nurturing and teaching them. The latter, if all chosen from a single template, would be too monotonous. Creating a different template for each person would also be too much effort.
After much deliberation, Ding Yun couldn't make up her mind.
So, she could only postpone this plan for now, not bestowing souls, or rather, consciousness, upon these newly created virtual people. She would do so when the need arose.
Then, of course, it was time to leave the virtual divine realm and sleep.
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The Hong family's old residence.
After洪兴文 (Hong Xingwen) angrily carried his son back, he handed the child to the nanny and sat down on the sofa. He said to his mother:
"Mom, I want a divorce. I can't stand her anymore. Before giving birth, her temper was strange, and she'd lose her mind every few days. I tolerated it because she was pregnant, but now, I can't.
Do you know what she did today?
She actually argued with me, grabbed our child by the neck, and threatened to take us all down with her. If there weren't so many people in the house, and if we hadn't quickly worked together to snatch the child from her, something terrible might have happened.
She's definitely got something wrong with her brain!"
"You were the one crying and begging to marry her, and now you want a divorce. Didn't you say that the path you choose, you'd walk even if it was covered in glass shards, crawling on your knees?
It's only been a few years, and you're already regretting it!"
顾春风 (Gu Chunfeng) rolled her eyes at her son, displeased.
It wasn't that she particularly wanted to defend her daughter-in-law. It was just that divorce in the current situation was indeed not ideal. Not to mention they had only been married for a few years, and their daughter-in-law had always had a good reputation. Furthermore, the court wouldn't grant a divorce so soon after the wife had just finished her confinement. At least, not without the wife's consent.
If they were to divorce now, during the nursing period.
The child would likely be awarded to the mother.
So, even if they were to divorce, Gu Chunfeng wouldn't support her son divorcing now. She'd prefer to postpone it for at least a year or so, or perhaps wait for two years of separation.
"She's always had problems, haven't you noticed?
During her prenatal check-ups, the doctor already told us she had prenatal depression. After giving birth, the doctor also told us she had postpartum depression, but we just didn't tell you.
However, the daughter-in-law you found is truly pathetic. Just giving birth, she was depressed during pregnancy and still depressed after. She's practically useless. In the past, many women carried their babies for eight or nine months, even giving birth in the fields, and none of them were depressed. Here she is, being served good food and drinks, with four or five people attending to her, and a specialized nutritionist helping to regulate her diet, yet she's still depressed.
I think she's just idle!
I don't know if her recurring depression has affected the child. Let me tell you, you only have one son right now, and that's not secure. You should either have another son or two with her, or divorce her in a couple of years and find someone new. You want to divorce anyway, right?
I agree, but we can't divorce now. We'll divorce in a couple of years. One or two years should be bearable."
洪陶阳 (Hong Taoyang), Hong Xingwen's father, who had been standing by the side, also spoke with considerable dissatisfaction.
However, he was more displeased with his daughter-in-law.
He found her too incompetent.
He was also worried about the potential impact of her prenatal and postpartum depression on his grandson. He wondered if such mental illnesses might be subtly inherited by his grandson.
What if their grandson grew up and suffered from depression?
That would be a disaster!
Therefore, he strongly supported his elder son's decision to divorce. He wanted to find someone who was physically and mentally healthy to have a definitively healthy grandson to put his mind at ease.
"Dad, why didn't you tell me about such a big issue? Since she had prenatal and postpartum depression, why didn't you get her psychological treatment back then?
No wonder her emotions were so unstable. I originally thought it was due to hormonal changes during pregnancy."
After hearing Hong Taoyang's words, Hong Xingwen's initial anger subsided considerably. After all, if his wife truly had an illness, it wouldn't be appropriate for him to be too harsh with a patient. He also felt that his father, knowing his wife was ill, hadn't actively sought treatment for her, which he found improper.
"Treatment! How could we treat her?
Giving her antidepressant medication while she was pregnant, what if it affected our grandson? After giving birth, she insisted on breastfeeding herself, so medication would still affect our grandson.
She really knows how to pick her timing to be depressed.
She wasn't depressed when she was carrying a daughter, but she is when carrying a son.
And if this news got out, people might think we mistreated her. These artistic types are so troublesome, so sensitive. They're really worse than gold-diggers. We can provide them with good food and drinks, give them money and houses, and it's easily settled.
They'll happily get pregnant and give birth!"
Having said this, Hong Taoyang noticed his son's slightly unhappy expression and softened his tone, continuing:
"Forget it, forget it. Since you've already brought the son back, let a private doctor go and see her. However, the child absolutely cannot be breastfed by her anymore.
Giving birth is such a hassle.
If I had known, I wouldn't have let you marry her in the first place."
"You father and son only know how to regret, regret. What, do you want a bottle of regret-reversal medicine each? Think carefully about the divorce yourself. If you've decided, then don't regret it again. Don't change your mind every day, or I'll have to clean up your mess with your father. Also, even if you divorce, you need to pacify your wife properly.
Don't make a big fuss, or it will have a bad influence.
It's also bad for the company's stock price!"
Gu Chunfeng, no longer wanting to bother with the matter, added a few more admonishments before standing up and heading back to her room to wash up and rest.
(End of this chapter)