Chapter 89: Watching the Play_2

Jiang Li heard this story for the first time when she was still a little girl in Tongxiang. At that age, she didn't shed tears over it but was filled with indignant fury at the injustice suffered by Xiao Jiuer. She even told Xue Zhao that if she were in that position, knowing that the person by her side was such a callous creature, she would never hang herself in front of the scholar's door; instead, she would take a knife and make sure the scholar met the same end as hers. Xue Zhao had said at that time, "When that time comes, you'll surely not bear to do it."

She sneered at that. What was there not to bear? It was just a traitorous white-eyed wolf, worse than an animal. The story's Xiao Jiuer even clung to the past kindnesses; she couldn't understand whether it was the storyteller's lack of thought or a flaw in the story itself that was at fault.