Mrs. Herd was no less skilled in speaking sharply and acerbically than anyone else.
It wasn't that she couldn't speak like that; she just didn't want to.
She had always believed that people should live for the sake of living well and happily, making the most of every day without regrets.
Why insist on living like a fighting rooster, hostile towards everyone? What was the point of such a life?
But dealing with someone as vile and despicable as Mrs. Zell, she had let go of her inhibitions.
Mrs. Herd's words were like a bomb dropped, rattling Homing Zell to his core.
He could hardly believe that his wife, who had been too shy and embarrassed in bed even after being married for many years, could have possibly done something so shameless in the conservative era many years ago.
At 17 years old, not yet an adult, she had done something so shameless just for the sake of some test papers.
