Xie Jinbai's eyes were bloodshot. "I'm going to kill him!"
"...Can we just not talk about this?"
Cui Lingyao's head throbbed. "Haven't I already explained all this? It's not like I did it on purpose!"
"But *he* did it on purpose!"
Xie Jinbai ground his teeth. "He knew your identity all along. He knew you were my wife, yet he still showed no restraint and deliberately lured you into agreeing to the marriage pact. He had ill intentions toward you from the very beginning!"
...
A heavy silence fell.
Cui Lingyao froze for a moment.
She had almost forgotten—he'd always thought Shen Tingyu was in love with 'Pei Shuyao'...
'And now...'
Suddenly, she was at a loss for words.
Xie Jinbai's gaze slowly turned cold. "Tell me, when did you confess your identity to him?"
"...It-it wasn't a confession."
Cui Lingyao said quickly, "I had just returned at the time and wasn't familiar with anything around me. Why would I confess my identity to him? He figured it out on his own."
