Yutang continued, "An unmarried woman having a secret affair and becoming pregnant has never been tolerated by society. At the time, the Wang Family intended to drown Wang Nianci in the river, but somehow she managed to escape. Because of this, the Wang Family publicly announced that they were severing all ties and disowning this concubine-born daughter."
Xie Jiuli expressed no opinion on the matter of women having children out of wedlock; in this world, life was already difficult enough for women.
She believed no woman would willingly place herself in such a perilous situation, though there were always exceptions.
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