The Red Lotus Burns, the White Lotus Deceives

All because there was no blood on our wedding night. Chester Gilbert, with his severe obsession over purity, decided I was a dirty woman. Every night he would hold me down in the bathtub and pour scalding water, nearly seventy degrees, over my whole body. He wouldn't let me out until my skin was red and peeling. No matter how I tried to explain that this was perfectly normal, he simply refused to believe me.