"Holy crap, are you guys heartless? This girl is about to be beaten to death, and you're not only doing nothing, but now you're even trying to tell some story!"
Yao Jing, who was squatting beside the trembling woman, couldn't hold back when she heard Song Mengmeng's words. She turned around and looked at Song Mengmeng with an expression as if she were looking at a monster, and rebuked her.
"Young lady, what you said is a bit too harsh and excessive!"
What you're seeing is just a common occurrence in their home! Don't believe me? Look at the injuries on her body!
Since this isn't the first time she's faced this situation, why didn't she stand up sooner and expose the harm her husband inflicted on her during their marriage?!
Song Mengmeng didn't say anything, but Hu Yue couldn't help but look up at Yao Jing and retorted without any politeness.
Of course she knew that domestic violence was wrong, no matter the reason!
But the couple in front of us gave off a really weird vibe!
In addition, Song Mengmeng's unusual behavior from the moment the couple entered the door made her keenly aware that something was definitely wrong.
Just because she lacks the ability to see it doesn't mean others can't!
Since that's the case, there's no way she could let this unaware young girl in front of her slander Song Mengmeng!
"It is said that the Yuki-onna is a very contradictory kind of yokai in the land of cherry blossoms."
They are said to be the vengeful spirits of women who have been hurt by men. They appear during heavy snowfall, pretending to be pitiful women trapped and unable to escape, begging for help from passing men.
Once a man stops and chooses to help them, he has essentially entered the game.
They will choose to stay by a man's side in the way he likes best, working hard without complaint, enduring beatings and scoldings, and accepting everything that the man inflicts on them without reservation.
But there's one condition: this man can't betray her!
If a man breaks the vows he made to her, no matter how loving their relationship was before, the Snow Woman will immediately turn against him, devouring him completely before moving on to her next target.
Song Mengmeng spoke slowly, but as she spoke, Huo Si, who was being held captive by Qi Ke and the others, seemed to have heard some terrifying news, and his whole body trembled like a leaf.
"Shut up! Stop talking nonsense! How could such a thing possibly happen!"
Huo Si gritted his teeth, and his rebuttal at this moment seemed like a blatant attempt to cover up his guilt, further highlighting the strange origins of the woman Yao Jing was protecting and comforting.
"Shouldn't you know better than us whether it's true or not?!" Song Mengmeng wasn't intimidated by Huo Si's excitement at all. She remained calm and composed, as if teasing a kitten or puppy, and said to Huo Si, "Otherwise, what are you afraid of?!"
"I'm not scared!" Even though he was trembling all over, Huo Si still stubbornly refused to bow his head and said, "You've wronged me. I... I was just angry!"
Huo Si was indeed frightened.
Although the little girl sitting in front of him was telling the story of the Snow Woman, the story actually matched exactly how he met his wife.
Their village was indeed very poor.
Therefore, whether in the past or present, if given the opportunity to leave, very few people would voluntarily stay in the village to continue living.
As a result, over time, it has become a huge problem for men here to find wives.
I don't know when it started, but buying a wife from outside has become a custom in their area.
However, the Huo family still couldn't raise the money.
So much so that Huo's parents, who were eager to have an heir for the Huo family, were going crazy and even came up with the idea of arranging a marriage for him.
That is, he would exchange his sisters with other people's sisters, so that both sides could get wives.
During that time of hardship, while he was chopping firewood on the mountain, he encountered his current wife, who had been lying unconscious by the roadside!
This woman is breathtakingly beautiful.
She was prettier than any girl he had ever seen in the hands of human traffickers! And she was lying there unconscious, looking pitiful and helpless.
Huo Si wasn't actually very brave, so his first reaction upon seeing this was that he had encountered a spirit!
So he wanted to leave quietly, but when he took a step, the woman reached out and grabbed his leg and wouldn't let go.
The woman cried and begged him to save her, saying that she had escaped from human traffickers and had been wandering aimlessly in the mountains for one or two days without food or water. If Huo Si didn't save her, she would really die in the mountains!
Huo Si was already completely captivated when he first saw this woman, and now that he heard her plea for help, he was even more unable to leave!
He even withstood the pressure of being discovered and retaliated against by human traffickers, and brought the woman home.
The woman is also very grateful. She said that her family has not treated her well, and now that she has encountered such a thing, she is afraid that her family will not tolerate her even more when she goes back.
Rather than going back and continuing to be looked down upon by her family, she would rather stay in the Huo family and marry Huo Si.
Huo Si was naturally delighted with the woman's decision. He immediately promised her that he would treat her well and would never bully or hurt her!
However……
"You remembered!" The woman seemed to sense the terror surging in Huo Si's heart. She slowly raised her head, her previous timid and humble demeanor gone, and smiled at the man in front of her whose face was distorted with fear.
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