At the mention of the mental hospital, Li Xueyao’s mind was assaulted by waves of nightmares and the humiliations she had once endured. She let out a furious roar: "Ah—Su Li, it was you! It was you all along! You knew everything, and you deliberately sent me to that mental hospital!"
"You knew! You devil, you are a devil!"
Her outburst, while intended to attack Su Li, sounded more like a desperate, self-incriminating confession. Not only did the crowd below understand exactly what had happened, but Ouyang De, standing beside her, felt his face stiffen. He had assumed Li Xueyao had come straight to him after leaving the Su family; he had never imagined she carried such a sordid history. Looking at her now, he wondered: was everything Su Li said true? Although he was no saint—and had certainly consorted with married women before—playing around and taking a wife were two different things. What was this? Had he really married a piece of "second-hand goods" used by countless others?
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