Ruth had never told anyone.
She didn't dare to and she knew that it was useless even if she said it.
But at this moment, she had told her everything.
Those words had been suppressed in her heart for a long time.
Unfortunately, it was useless to say it out loud.
That was because Madam Quartley didn't believe it at all.
She looked at Ruth in extreme shock. "Ruth, are you crazy? What are you talking about?"
Ruth raised her voice and replied, "It's true! I swear with my life that I didn't lie to you! I didn't lie to you at all!"
"B*stard!" Madam Quartley slammed the table again. "If you still want to slander Yuliana like this, I won't show you any mercy!"
Despair flashed across Ruth's eyes.
It was useless after all.
Even if she said it, it was useless.
Just as she had thought earlier.
However...
Her trembling hands touched her lower abdomen. She had no other wishes at the moment. She just wanted to protect her child!
That was all!
She just wanted to protect her own child!
He was her flesh and blood!
How could she let others bully him!
Although she was petty and low, she couldn't let her child be humiliated and tortured like her.
Ruth's eyes turned red, and she looked at Madam Quartley in a decisive manner. "Madam Quartley, I know that I am a servant. I have no background, no status, and no ability. Hence, I must give the child in my belly to you. I don't even have the right to keep my child. However, I am still a mother. I don't want to watch my child live in pain in the future!"
"So if you still want to give the child to Madam Yuliana, then I will kill myself in front of you today. It's better to die with the child now than to let him suffer after being born!"
After that, Ruth was about to run into the wall in front of her.
When Madam Quartley saw that, she was scared out of her wits. She immediately ordered the two servants to hold onto Ruth tightly.
Her body was being pulled. Her heart was filled with endless darkness and despair.
She suddenly remembered what the teacher said when she was a child.
Nashaland had begun to promote equality among the people in the past ten years.
Before that, the people in Nashaland were divided into different classes.
Just like Ruth, all her generation had been the lowest class in the society.
Ruth was destined to be a servant since she was born.
The education she received was not the public education that an ordinary child could receive. Instead, she was taught how to be a servant and how to obey her master.
When she was young, the teacher often said to Ruth, "You must listen to your master. If your master wants you to live, you have to live. If your master wants to die, you have to die! Your life belongs to your master!"
After the reform of Nashaland, the servants were not as low-ranking as before.
But for people like Ruth, who had been educated how to be a servant since young, some ideas had been deeply rooted in her bones and could not be changed at all.
Tears fell like rain.
It turned out that some things had been destined since young.
"You must listen to your master. If your master wants you to live, you have to live. If your master wants to die, you have to die! Your life belongs to your master!!"
Even if her life was as cheap as dirt, it was still the master's.
Even if she wanted to die, she couldn't die!
Although Ruth did not succeed in seeking death, her determination frightened Madam Quartley.
Finally, Zorion would have a descendant after Madam Quartley had expected it for so long. How could she allow any mistake to happen?
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