What a joke, this is childbirth!
It's raw, bloody, completely devoid of aesthetic beauty – childbirth! Perhaps philosophers and literati can perceive the sanctity of life being born, but Purple Summers couldn't!
She couldn't spread her legs wide open in front of others, letting the whole process be exposed right under their scrutinizing eyes!
Even with her most intimate lover, she just couldn't do it!
Call her conservative, or say she harbored prejudices against the female body, either way, she just couldn't do it!
It felt too shameful!
Even now, lying on the delivery bed, letting the nurse help her dilate bit by bit, her face was flushed red.
Oh God... once is enough for this ordeal, she never wanted to give birth again.
Why must women endure such pain?
Purple's eyes welled up with tears.
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