Chapter 10 Dangerous Hanging
Chapter 10: The Perilous Hanging
In her past life, Jiang Mengyu jumped off the cliff at dawn.
She only remembered something pouncing at her, no, she pounced at something.
Then she felt a jolt throughout her body, and lost consciousness. When she woke up, she was on top of a big branch.
So, in her past life, it was likely that she leaped forward, plunging horizontally, and that's why the pine tree managed to catch her easily.
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But in this life, it was broad daylight when she leaped, and she could see everything clearly around her.
Most crucially, she was supposed to dive forward, body horizontal, but being seized by that soldier, her orientation turned to head-down feet-up.
This changed from a large area crashing down to a small area plunging.
A large area crashing down, the chance of being caught by a pine tree was very high.
But with the head going down first, the area of contact with the pine tree reduced greatly, and the area that the tree could catch became very small.
This time, could she still be saved by the pine tree? Or would she fall directly to the sixty to seventy-meter canyon below and be smashed to pieces?
In that instant, her mind raced. If she really died, Jiang Huaiyu would just impersonate her as before, read the materials she had prepared, acknowledge her mother, and even enjoy the company of the man her mother found for her!
She couldn't die! She couldn't die like this after being reborn with much difficulty!
She tried to lift her head in midair and twist her body around. Her arms and legs naturally stretched out, trying to grab anything they could.
But she felt without something to hold onto, every movement was too hard.
She barely lifted her head a bit when her body already rushed toward the pine tree.
Numerous pine needles swept across her face, and indeed, her head and face went through the gaps in the foliage.
The pine tree didn't catch her!
A thought flashed through Mengyu's mind: It's over, I'm going to be smashed to pieces!
But her hand refused to give up, swinging to grab something.
At last, her right hand grabbed a branch. Then, making use of the branches to slow her descent, her left hand also latched on.
Due to gravity, her body sank a bit, and her hand could no longer hold on.
An excruciating pain came from her palms, but she still clung on desperately, refusing to let go.
Eventually, after a few jerks from the momentum, she heard the sound of fabric tearing, and then, she came to a halt in midair.
She opened her eyes and saw that she was hanging from the pine tree branch.
Yes, in her past life, she was caught horizontally by the pine tree, but this time, she was hanging down vertically, thus, the pine tree didn't catch her, but it did hang onto her.
Her clothes, pierced by a tree trunk, bore some of her weight, which was why she managed to hang on and not fall further down.
She suppressed the urge to look down, stretched out her left hand to grab the tree trunk, and then attempted to hook her feet up as well.
However, although she had worked since she was young, her strength hadn't fully recovered due to Father Jiang and Madam Jiang drugging her, and her strength was truly limited; no matter how hard she strived, she just couldn't hook her feet up!
Hanging like this, would she eventually become jerky?
Would eagles come and peck at her dead body, leaving only her skeleton behind?
No, maybe she wouldn't hang for long before she would fall.
The clothes that hung her on the tree weren't of good quality; they were made of cotton fabric and had been washed countless times, with many patches on them, unsure how much longer they could hold.
If the fabric couldn't bear it, only holding by her hands, she probably wouldn't be able to hang on much longer.
Of course, should she let go with her hands, it's feared the fabric would give out immediately.