Ding Suzhu slowly recounted her past experiences, savoring the wine, feeling sowhat intoxicated, yet every word she spoke was heartfelt.
The once sweet and stable marriage was shattered. Ding Suzhu had to face daily insults from her in-laws and endure a husband prone to beating and berating her. Originally, a woman who should have been utterly destroyed, she endured all the pressure, choosing to stand up and start from scratch, establishing her own business.
Ding Suzhu decided to enter the business world, enduring many hardships and setbacks. She kept accumulating resources until she carved out her own territory, even moving Ma Zongyu to work with her. Together, they fought hard for many years to achieve their current wealth and even squeezed into the elite circles of Shoucheng.
Up to this point, everything seed perfect.
But until one day, when Ding Suzhu caught Ma Zongyu in bed with her younger sister, Ding Caiyan, she realized how absurd everything was.
The once strong woman was cruelly defeated by reality, shattered, as if struck by lightning, losing all her confidence.
"Those two despicable people!" Bai Yingqing slamd the table and felt a bit of sympathy for Ding Suzhu, saying, "And what about the rumors that followed..."
Gu Tong lowered her eyelids, her deep eyes focused on the wine glass, saying, "I think it was probably spread by Ma Zongyu. He’s unwilling to admit that everything he has was achieved thanks to Mrs. Ding, so he wanted to erase all traces of it. Unfortunately, Mrs. Ding was too strong, so he couldn’t act against her, and the only path left was to destroy her reputation."
"Despicable." Such thods, even among the wealthy, could only be used by soone truly cruel, yet now Ma Zongyu used them with ease.
"Talking to you all about it is quite good, it makes my heart feel much better." Ding Suzhu usually had no place to speak of these things, but now, finally having friends, she used a bit of liquid courage to pour out her long-held-inner thoughts, leaving nothing unsaid, and her mood improved greatly.
"You did have it tough." Bai Yingqing sympathized with Mrs. Ding’s plight, but beyond those words, she didn’t know what else to say.
Gu Tong set her wine glass on the table and said evenly, "But she asked for it."
These words completely shattered the sorrowful atmosphere in the restaurant.
Everyone looked at her in disbelief, feeling sowhat bewildered.
Ding Suzhu’s voice trembled slightly as she instinctively asked, "Why?"
Gu Tong’s voice was calm and emotionless, "Good dicine tastes bitter, honest words are hard to hear, but the truth hurts."
"Go ahead, whatever you say, I won’t bla you." Ding Suzhu bit her lower lip, indeed wanting to know the answer.
Gu Tong raised an eyebrow and was straightforward, "Because you love him, and loved him so humbly."
Whether it be the story, the words, the expressions, or the emotions, it all boiled down to one word: love. Mrs. Ding, because she loved him, was so humbly indulgent, even put herself in such a passive position.
"Is it wrong for to love my husband?" Ding Suzhu admitted she indeed loved Ma Zongyu, even now, she would prepare als and wait for him late into the night.
After all, they were husband and wife, there was nothing wrong with that, right?
"Of course, there’s an issue. Love is a word, a form of expression, but it’s definitely not about torturing yourself and giving soone else a knife called love to stab yourself recklessly. You gave him too much power."
Often, in relationships, a woman’s intelligence becos nil, and in order to love a man, she loses reason, even allowing the loved one to do anything, claiming it’s all for one word—love.
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