634 The wages of sin

"Hold her still," she ordered Meili and she brandished that knife before Yan Daya's eyes from side to side threateningly, ensuring that the woman could vividly see that sharp steel knife which would be gouging her eyes of their sockets. "I won't be giving you an anesthetic; you are going to feel every excruciating bit of pain. And after I take your eyes, I will take your voice and your arms, I think. You see, those things that you planned to have done to my children, I am going to have done to you. What is it that they say_, if you live by the sword you die by the sword. You have killed many people, women especially; you have harmed many and fed many to your beast of an Uncle Yan Moon, including one your friends, Ai Wan. People said that she was more beautiful than you at the university and you got jealous so you drugged her, and your uncle defiled her body in filthy ways. He even burnt her with cigars on her buttocks and feet."