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beat him, I’ll kill myself.” With that she picked up
the scissors on the table and pointed it at her throat.
Her husband hesitated and looked at Black
Peony at a loss. Black Peony said to her husband, “I
love Soapy! I love him very much! I do it with him
every day! What can you do about me?!”
Her husband uttered a cry of pain, fell down to
the ground and lost consciousness.
Later, Black Peony told me she brought her
husband back home with people’s help. When he had
recovered, he cried his eyes out. She was pitiful for
him and realized what she had done was too much.
She apologized for what she had done. She told him
the truth. She said there was nothing between her and
me. She was innocent and Soapy was too. She
stressed the story about illicit intercourse was
deliberately made up to exasperate him. That’s
because he suspected her and she was eager for
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