The image of Zhao Yue'er as gentle and kind shattered in an instant. Xuanyuan Ming could not accept it; for a long time, he could not gather his thoughts.
It was true. In his heart, Zhao Yue'er had always been a gentle, quiet flower raised in a greenhouse, far removed from the strife of the world. How could she possibly be the hideous, venomous snake depicted in the black-and-white evidence? Had it not been for the irrefutable proof, he never would have believed it.
Yet, everything had left a trail. From the moment she entered the Jun Estate as his secondary wife, from the way she had silently and steadily inserted herself into the relationship between him and Shen Qingyan, the misunderstandings and conflicts had never ceased. He simply hadn’t believed it at the time. Blinded by the affection he had felt for her since childhood, and overwhelmed by a sense of guilt and the joy of having "recovered" what he thought he’d lost, he had lost all judgment.
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