"Take me with you, please. Tonight... I'll do anything."
Yang Ao was baffled by Zhao Hong's pitiful plea and asked the other women:
"What's wrong with her?"
Li Jie clung to Yang Ao's arm. Zhao Hong felt like a nuisance to her right now, so naturally, she wasn't going to speak up for her.
"Nothing. She's always like this. Let's go."
Su Lele didn't intervene either. She was Shen Jin's woman. She pitied Zhao Hong, but she didn't want to see her groveling every day for that useless husband of hers.
The sooner they broke up, the better it would be for everyone.
The other middle-aged woman in the dorm had never liked getting involved in other people's business, so she didn't say much either.
When no one offered an explanation, Yang Ao said, "If it's nothing, then let's leave it for another day. Li Jie is coming with me tonight."
He turned to leave, but Zhao Hong sprawled on the floor and suddenly wrapped her arms around his leg.
"Please, let me come tonight. I'll do anything, even if both of you want to do it together..."
Zhao Hong had abandoned her dignity completely. If she couldn't get food tonight, Ma Sanxiong really would stop having anything to do with her.
She was afraid he would become even more fixated and do something irrational again.
She was begging a superhuman so abjectly now only because she wanted her husband to stay alive.
Yang Ao frowned. There was clearly more to this than met the eye.
Qi Tong had already crawled under her covers, wanting nothing to do with anyone. But hearing Zhao Hong demean herself like this, she couldn't stand it anymore.
She flung off her covers with a snap and said fiercely to Yang Ao:
"If you consider