'Just think about it. Aren't you being a bit too cruel to me...'
Every word he spoke was laced with resentment, as if each one were drawn from blood.
Cui Lingyao's heart ached at his words.
"You were scared? Don't you think I was scared, too?"
She sniffled. "In a situation like that, what was I supposed to do? Just stand by and watch my sister-in-law fall to her death? I was thinking of you, too. I didn't try to catch her; I just shielded her from two sharp edges."
'She had her own selfish worries. She was terrified.'
'In the instant she lunged forward, Cui Lingyao had even felt a pang of regret.'
'She thought that it was a risk she shouldn't have taken.'
'But her brother had always been so good to her, and Xie Anning, her sister-in-law, had doted on her for years.'
'No matter what, she just couldn't bring herself to watch someone die violently right before her eyes.'
'Was that wrong?'
'Was she really just being a fool?'
