"Last summer, I found out I was pregnant... I don't know how it happened... Mr. Wan was furious when he found out. I can't blame him. He'd warned me beforehand that he already had an arranged marriage and would never marry me. He also said he didn't like women like me and that if I got pregnant, he would kick me out... That was a condition he'd set when I first started seeing him... It's understandable... He probably assumed I was scheming... It's all my fault..."
"What about the child?"
"I rolled down the stairs twice..."
Liu Daqing could not believe what she had just heard. What did "rolled down the stairs twice" mean? Yan Xixi had specified "rolled," not merely "fallen." The distinction was subtle, a testament to the profound depth of the Chinese language.
