The consequences? The consequences I could bear, I've already borne them.
Yiren responded indifferently, "Without you, I won't starve! I can cook, do laundry, clean, prepare nutritious meals for infants, choose and kill fish at the market, haggle, drive by myself..."
Yiren listed all the things she could do herself just to prove that she could live well without Lu Ming.
But as Lu Ming listened, his heart ached painfully. Each word, each sentence hit him like nails driving into his heart, spreading a lingering pain that numbed his whole body.
All these things were skills Yiren did not possess before. In less than a year, she had learned so much, and the hardships she endured made Lu Ming's heart ache.
He lowered his gaze to her hands, once untouched by spring water, and now he could see calluses on her palms.
