'What if he assumed that no matter what he did, a married woman like her would just suffer in silence to protect her reputation, not daring to tell her own husband, while he tried every means possible to humiliate her?'
'Even if she didn't die,'
'for Li Lu, taking her out to avenge Li Wanrong would have been a trivial matter.'
'In such a dire situation, even Shen Tingyu had realized that if she fell into Li Lu's hands, she would suffer his humiliation.'
'How could Cui Lingyao dare to stay?'
'She would rather believe she wouldn't be so unlucky as to be swallowed by the flood.'
'If Shen Tingyu could jump, so could she.'
As it turned out, she really wasn't that unlucky.
She and Shen Tingyu had both survived.
So Cui Lingyao thought, but the next moment, a sharp, twisting pain shot through her abdomen.
It was far more ferocious than before, so painful that her vision went black, and she suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood.
