"But he threatened me with my family's lives. I had no choice but to act in secret."
"Recently, I discovered that his behavior had become very strange."
Li Yan was somewhat curious. "How was it strange?"
"A few days ago, he was still hitting and kicking me, speaking coldly and harshly. Then, all of a sudden, he started treating me very well."
"He not only stopped preventing me from going out, but also bought me flowers, cakes, and a new phone. He even took the initiative to give me money and let me go shopping for clothes and bags."
After a brief pause, Su Qiao continued, "You have to understand, before this, he would never have allowed me to have even ten yuan on me."
"Even when I bought groceries, the old woman would ask for every last few coins of change. She would also question me in detail about exactly what vegetables and fruits I had bought."
"So, isn't that strange?"
"The better he treated me, the more afraid I became. So, I climbed down from the window in the middle of the night and escaped."
Li Yan's eyes widened, and she clicked her tongue in disbelief. "That was the fifth floor. How did you climb down?"
"I climbed down along the pipes and the air-conditioner brackets."
Although this was not a difficult task for Su Qiao.
Others would not see it that way.
In their eyes, Su Qiao was a thin, frail woman who was only 1.6 meters tall.
She paused, then said helplessly, "If I didn't escape, I would die. I had to take a chance."
Jiang Jinghao had never expected that this was how she had escaped.
He clasped her hand, his face full of regret. "Bao'er, you should have let me come pick you up."