Xiao Yu could barely bring himself to go on.
After a long silence, he continued, "Peng Xiaorong was pregnant again then, and she already had a child, so she couldn't get divorced. Later, she had two children to raise, and they couldn't go without a father, which made divorce even more out of the question. She was also worried that if she divorced and went back to her parents, wouldn't the gossip leave them too ashamed to hold their heads up?
"One divorce, then another-people would definitely think she was the problem. She couldn't drag her parents down, so she endured it.
"She had to do housework while heavily pregnant, take beatings and abuse, look after the children, wait on the emperor of the household, and work! And her husband took the money she worked so hard to earn and spent it on eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling."
Miserable, miserable-truly miserable!
A woman could suffer this much if she didn't marry a good man!
Besides, those days weren't like today, when people divorced at the drop of a hat. It was commonplace: two people might meet today, get married tomorrow, and get divorced the day after because one had annoyed the other.
Just like playing house.
It had been different back then. Divorce was a major affair, and the neighbors would gossip about it every day. Whatever the reason, it was always the woman's fault.
All sorts of social factors and attitudes made it impossible to divorce lightly, and they had also led to the tragedy of Peng Xiaorong's life.
Bang!
Crash!
"Motherfucker!!!!"
His eyes bloodshot, Lu Hanzhen smashed his liquor bottle and choked out, "I couldn't bear for her to suffer even the slightest bit. I broke up with her so she could have a good life, only to