When Ye Ling saw Shen Chun, it was when their child was starting first grade. She and Shen Bin were taking their child to school, and on the way back, they saw a man violently hitting a woman.
Just like that, hitting her hard on the street. The woman lay on the ground, struggling at first, but then she lay still, as if resigning to her fate. A crowd had gathered around, but no one stepped forward to intervene.
"Old Wang's wife gets beaten every day. If you don't know any better, you might think Old Wang is someone terrible, but actually, outsiders don't know that Old Wang's wife isn't decent at all, always flirting with others."
"She looks so honest too, how could she do such things?"
"Honest? What honesty? Old Wang said she wasn't pure when they got together. Otherwise, why would someone with Old Wang's good temper beat a woman every day? You see him selling pork on our street for so many years without ever having an argument with anyone."
