On weekends, he would often find an excuse to head out to run an errand, only to sneak off to Li Honghong’s place for a tryst. Perhaps Li Zhengquan enjoyed the thrill of the secrecy; after he and Li Honghong rekindled their old flame, his mood improved significantly. Back at the office, Yuanchun could often hear him humming to himself.
Yuanchun certainly had no intention of letting Li Zhengquan and Li Honghong live so happily. One weekend, she wrote an anonymous letter and stealthily placed it on Wei Xinxin’s table.
An hour later, while Li Zhengquan and Li Honghong were entangled in their rented room, Wei Xinxin arrived with her family. They stormed in, pinned the pair down, and gave them a brutal beating. Li Zhengquan’s leg was broken, and his face was battered and bruised. Li Honghong’s face was slashed, and she, too, suffered a broken leg. The Wei family then dragged them out onto the street for an incomparably savage public denunciation.
Chapter 1299