"Go easy, my ear's about to fall off! Why would I ever hit you?" Gu Lihuang whined, clutching his ear. "When have you ever seen me hit anyone? Ever since I was a kid, seeing the miserable state my mom was in after getting beaten, the thing I hate most is men who hit women."
Gu Lihuang didn't dare tell the truth. The reality was, when he was eight years old, his father beat his mother so badly that she secretly put rat poison in his food. His father must have had incredible luck, because after eating it, he just had diarrhea for two days and was completely fine. Afterward, his father nearly beat his mother to death. He even threw her out into the woodshed to live there for the entire winter... After that, his family developed a new rule: whenever a meal was served, his mother had to take a few bites before anyone else could eat.
