Koala Reads

"Shang Yunruo hadn't known about Madam Bai's bitter past. Seeing the woman who always moved like a gentle bodhisattva, the thought of her history stole the breath from Yunruo's chest."

"The village was even more conservative than the city. Even in town some ladies' conditions were only discussed with other women in the inner chambers — here, such practices would be met with scandal. Yunruo had already seen the crude faces of Second Uncle and the little aunt; she knew what they were capable of."

"If it ever came out that Chu Yan had nothing to do with Bai Yuzhu, they could get well and simply walk away. And what of Madam Bai? Her patience, her soft heart and boundless charity—how could she fend off petty, grasping people? If they wanted to ruin her, they would. Yunruo could not let Madam Bai’s kindness be turned into a blade pointed at her own chest."