CHAPTER 669: ATTACKING FIRST (I)

Sure enough, Tong Huan didn’t understand what Bai Meiyue was trying to tell her. And neither did Jiang Haidai, as she too could not understand why Xu Yiyi was not willing to start afresh. As far as she knew, in the past Xu Yiyi might not have had any options, but now she had countless options in front of her. Why wasn’t she picking up one when she could live a better life?

After all, in their safe base, no one would force a woman to sell herself. If anything, they would try their best to give them a life much better than they were living at the moment.

Upon hearing the question that Tong Huan asked, Bai Meiyue didn’t answer; instead, she softly smiled and, with the help of the armrest of the chair, she slowly got to her feet. Her eyes flickered with little stars as she picked up Jiang Haidai’s little boy from the crib and started playing with him. She said to the two women, "Let me ask you one thing. If someone—anyone—has been living their life in hell, without any escape in sight, will they start learning how to live in there or live their life waiting for an opportunity that might not even come?"

"That..."

Tong Huan wanted to say something, but she couldn’t because she couldn’t even understand what Bai Meiyue was trying to tell her, but Jiang Haidai did. She thought about the time when she was caught and trapped by the Meng family. There were countless times when she thought that she would knock her head and die, but every time she tried to summon the courage, she couldn’t do it, leaving her with no choice but to accept the life that she was living.

It was a despicable way to live, but she had no other option.

But what surprised her was that Bai Meiyue was actually supporting Xu Yiyi. As far as she knew, Bai Meiyue was someone who never liked women who sold their bodies and earned a living by sleeping with men. So why was she suddenly speaking so fervently for Xu Yiyi? What was more, the way Bai Meiyue spoke was as if she were good friends with Xu Yiyi, which was weird, for she knew that Bai Meiyue had never met Xu Yiyi. This much was clear from Xu Yiyi, who looked at Bai Meiyue with a distant gaze.

"You don’t have to think about it so hard," Bai Meiyue waved her hand and said to the woman with a smile on her lips. "Even if you cannot understand it now, you will understand it some other time. Till then, you can continue living your lives as usual." After she finished speaking, she waved her hand and sent the two women away, asking them to go on and do their daily activities.

The two women left, still looking confused as ever. Seeing the look on their faces, Bai Meiyue shook her head and didn’t say a thing to them. Indeed, Bai Meiyue didn’t agree with the practice of a woman selling her body for the sake of survival. Regardless of what she thought about Xu Yiyi and how she had helped her countless times, she still thought that there was nothing good about a woman sleeping with another man. Even if it was Xu Yiyi.

In her eyes, it was a kind of cowardly thing to do.

But there was a fine line between Xu Yiyi and women like Bai Xue.

She despised women like Bai Xue, who didn’t want to suffer and couldn’t withstand any kind of pain. When faced with the courteous advances of men, she wouldn’t even think twice and spread her legs open for them. There was no hesitation or struggle involved. As long as she could live a life of comfort, Bai Xue wouldn’t mind rolling in bed with men. No matter what age or status. She had even sold off her body for a packet of bread, and even then, she pretended to be pure and naive by insisting that she had done nothing wrong. That was a path that she had to take because she had no other choice.

That she was forced and coerced into doing it, or she did it for the family, for Bai Meiyue and for Su Hu. Anyone but herself.

However, Xu Yiyi was different. If she slept with a man, she would be proud to say that she slept with him to fill her belly, that she didn’t do it for herself, and that she was made to sleep with that man because of her mother. But instead, she would admit that she did it because she wanted to eat a bellyful of food. There was no blaming anyone. She didn’t blame her own mother, who was the cause of her being stuck in the quagmire.

While Bai Xue willingly jumped into the pit, Xu Yiyi had no choice but to jump into the fire pit. In fact, it would be right to say that she was pushed into the pit. While Bai Xue often complained that she was pushed into doing something that she didn’t wish to do, Xu Yiyi accepted what she did. Even when she was reluctant to do so.

This was the reason why Bai Meiyue stood up for Xu Yiyi. She also hoped that Tong Huan and Jiang Haidai would be able to understand the misfortune that Xu Yiyi had to go through at the hands of her mother. However, she had a feeling that these women, as well as the rest of the women in the safe base, were too inexperienced for them to understand what Bai Meiyue was trying to tell them.

Once the two of them left, Xiao Wu returned with the man who was dressed in a military uniform. When he saw Bai Meiyue, he raised his hand and saluted her for he truly respected her from the bottom of his heart.

"Greetings, Miss Bai!"