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[Madam Gu knew perfectly well about Gu Minghan's sexual orientation, but for the sake of the Gu Family's reputation, not only had she kept it secret, she was also choosing a marriage alliance to conceal the truth.]

[Still, the Fu Family was wealthy and powerful, so ultimately, they weren't a suitable family for a marriage alliance. But Fu Siyao was such a textbook lady, thoroughly domesticated by high society and easy to control. She would never allow the unspeakable humiliation of having those photos taken to befall her or her family. Once they were exposed, their reputation would be dragged through the mud. So the Gu Family used that leverage to threaten Fu Siyao, testing the young lady's limits little by little, gradually beginning to steal the Fu Family's business secrets through her. This was also one of the reasons the Fu Family collapsed completely. After all, with one of their own riddling them with holes like a sieve from the inside, how could they not go bankrupt?]

[After marrying, Fu Siyao lived an agonizing life as a gay man's wife and was constantly bullied by his male side piece. Once the Fu Family went bankrupt, the Gu Family kicked her straight out. Later, when the photos were exposed, she ended up as a hostess entertaining clients.]

"!!!"

Fu Siyao nearly went mad when she saw all this.

She truly struggled to accept that the etiquette and rules she had followed since childhood were actually the very reason those devils in the Gu Family had set their sights on her.

So just because she was obedient, well-behaved, and easy to tame, they were going to humiliate her like that? She simply couldn't accept it.

Fu Siyao had always had a gentle disposition. Ever since she was old enough to understand things, she had studied all kinds of "ladylike" etiquette because she was the Fu Family's eldest daughter, strictly adhering to the principle that every move she made must uphold the bearing of a great family. She had once believed in this wholeheartedly, yet it was the root of her own destruction and her betrayal of her family. The convictions she had held for over twenty years crumbled completely at that moment. Only your enemies would want you harmless, like a clinging dodder vine. Only your enemies would pull out your claws and fangs, tame your personality, and turn you into an easily controlled slave forever. So what was the point of learning all that etiquette? Wasn't it all just to please others? The truth was far too painful.

So she absolutely could not enter a marriage alliance with the Gu Family, absolutely could not marry Gu Minghan, and certainly could not fall into eternal ruin and betray the Fu Family.

The more Fu Siyao looked, the more she felt that guilt lurked in the eyes of the Madam of the Gu Family. Then she remembered that she had only met Gu Minghan a handful of times so far, and his evasiveness at every meeting had raised all sorts of questions.

Once, in his office, she had even seen Gu Minghan sitting intimately with a male assistant as they looked over documents, their bodies so close there was practically no gap between them. Because it was a man, she hadn't thought much of it at the time.

But thinking about it now, Gu Minghan kept a vast distance even when sitting with her, his fiancée, and even instinctively resisted her coming close. Yet he was intimate with other men without making the slightest effort to avoid suspicion. Wasn't that suspicious?

So when Fu Siyao looked back on things she had never questioned before, she found far too many suspicious details. She had simply assumed he was an upright gentleman before and hadn't taken those details to heart. Now that she thought about it, there had been signs of everything.

The more Fu Siyao thought about it, the less she could bear it. Something like a taut string in her mind snapped completely.

Right before the shocked eyes of all the wealthy wives and socialites present.

For the first time in her life, Fu Siyao did something that violated the standards of a "lady."

With a sudden, crazed expression, she overturned the table laden with afternoon tea in front of her.

Everyone instantly cried out in alarm.

"Ah!"

Fu Siyao was going mad, determined to charge headlong into every single person who dared hurt him, without discrimination. She grabbed a cake covered in cream, suddenly leaped up like a madwoman, and smashed it onto the head of the Madam of the Gu Family.

"Eat! Go on, eat! Eat it! What the hell is your son, that you'd dare make me marry him? If your Gu Family's line is going to die out, don't drag me into it! What the hell is the Gu Family? I've never seen such shameless trash! Were you reincarnated from livestock? How can you be so inhuman? I'm telling you, I'm breaking off the engagement! The Fu Family is breaking off this engagement with you!! And our Fu Family won't let you get away with this!"

After that frenzied barrage, the Madam of the Gu Family was stunned senseless by the blows. The people she had brought hurriedly shielded her as she fled the Fu Family's old residence.

Everyone else looked utterly stupefied, and a dark-faced Chen Muyu swiftly showed them the door.

No one had expected Fu Siyao to suddenly go berserk when everything had been perfectly fine. She had always been so ladylike, yet now her temperament had changed completely.

After everyone had left and only Su Wanqiao remained, Chen Muyu couldn't help glaring at her.

"..."

Su Wanqiao hadn't expected it either. Fu Siyao had been so gentle and virtuous before, a perfect model of feminine virtue, yet today she had acted as though she had gone berserk. It truly made her jaw drop.

[What's going on? What exactly happened? What set Fu Siyao off? The way she's acting, it's like she already knows her future husband is gay, and the bottom at that. But they aren't married yet, so she shouldn't know.]

[Still, judging by this, Fu Siyao's mental state is decades ahead of mine.]

"..."

After her outburst, Fu Siyao suddenly felt that something inside her body, something that had always restrained her, had abruptly vanished.

Something seemed to awaken in her heart. She began to feel that her life before had been dictated by someone else, that she had always lived within a predetermined setting. She hadn't originally been like that, and she didn't like that "ladylike" personality either, but she had been manipulated like a marionette, existing only as a tool.

But now, she felt as though she had broken free of those restraints and could bravely be herself.

To hell with being a lady.

The Gu Family had to pay. Since they dared scheme against her, she would make them bind themselves in their own cocoon.

Chen Muyu, however, didn't blame Fu Siyao for these unusual actions. Her first reaction upon seeing her daughter go berserk was to realize that Siyao had also seen the words above Su Wanqiao's head.

And now it was confirmed: these words were Su Wanqiao's thoughts. In other words, she knew secrets they didn't. These things were certainly strange, but they weren't impossible.

So, seeing that her daughter was about to meet such a tragic end, Chen Muyu couldn't control herself at all and immediately arranged for people to investigate.