Koala Reads

"Su Yang didn't go straight into the subway. She walked an entire block first, as if she needed to burn off a little energy and force her attention to settle after Ren Sijia's barrage."

"Only when she was on the busy street did she feel the first real inhale of air. Only then did she know how much effort it had taken to look composed in front of Ren Sijia. September's late heat had no effect on her—her limbs felt ice-cold, as if some chill had been injected into her veins and traced every tendon. Every word Ren Sijia had spoken hammered at her like a stake of shame driven into bone and blood, each strike a reminder of the gap between her and Xu Lize, and of how their marriage had come to be."

"She could stand there and argue she had been in the right, but Su Yang was afraid. If next time it was Xu Lize asking for a divorce instead of Ren Sijia—what would she do then?"