Although he did not know what kind of "heartfelt confessions" or "unbearable nonsense" Du Hongyuan had spoken to Shen Xia while drunk, as long as he added that single remark, Du Hongyuan would be able to brush off any questions tomorrow by claiming he was just "talking nonsense under the influence."
As for whether you, Shen Xia, chose to believe that Du Hongyuan's words were "truthful revelations of a drunkard" or merely "drunken gibberish," that was entirely up to you. You could choose to believe that all the "nice things" Du Hongyuan said were true, or you could believe that all the "mean things" he said were false.
The emotional scale in your heart regarding Du Hongyuan would naturally filter out the bad and retain the good—this was a form of linguistic suggestion.
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