With the sensational news splashed across the newspapers and made public, only then did Nie Han realize what Xi Niang had been up to last night.
In reality, the current situation was such that even if one stood in the middle of the street and insisted that Chen Rou was the bodyguard—that she was indeed the woman in question—nobody would believe it. On the contrary, people preferred to believe in the narrative of two women fighting over one man. In this patriarchal society, fantasies about women, no matter how powerful they might be, were ultimately reduced to the trope of competing for a man's favor.
Naturally, with the news exposure, the servants in the household seemed to walk with a lighter step.
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