Elaine never would have expected to endure a beating and pay the price for the consequences of her actions because of the incident relating to Matilda after more than twenty years had already passed by.
She initially thought that she would be able to convince Jennifer to take her side. She never would have expected Lady Wilson to subvert all of her efforts just by bringing up this matter. Instead, she was plunging into an endless abyss at this time.
The few women who came up to beat her violently have all experienced a tragic history of a third party intervening in their marriage and relationship. Therefore, when they were hitting and kicking her, they brought all of their old hatred into this matter and they did not show any mercy towards Elaine at all.
Elaine was in so much pain that she felt as though she was dying after she was getting beaten up again. Elaine felt as though she was going into shock a couple of times but she was woken up twice when the other inmates began to kick and hit her.
After the group of people were done beating Elaine up, Lady Wilson said, "I think that we should take this shameless woman into the toilet just so she won't upset us any further!"
"Yes!" One of the inmates rushed forward before she replied coldly, "The old lady is right! We should just
throw her into the toilet!"
After that, the inmate told the woman standing next to her, "Come! Each of us should just grab one of her legs and drag her directly into the toilet."
"Okay!" The other party immediately nodded in agreement. After that, the both of them grabbed hold o f each of Elaine’s legs before they dragged her into the toilet.
Wendy also hurriedly followed behind them. When she saw that the other two women had already thrown Elaine into the toilet, Wendy took her washbasin and filled it up with water before pouring the basin full of water directly over Elaine's body.
Wendy sneered before she said, "Elaine, you should just stop dreaming. What were you hoping to achieve today? Do you really think that someone like you will b e able to go against Grandma?"
Elaine was immediately awakened by the basin of cold water and she started trembling violently as she was filled with regrets in her heart.
She should not have said those words in front of Jennifer and she should not have tried to arouse Jennifer's sympathy towards her.
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