Everyone Knows

[First-person narration, short slice-of-life, tragic ending warning]

She was my best friend, and everyone knew it.

I was the most important person in her life, and everyone knew it.

She became someone else's wife, and everyone knew it.

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Nie Xingyun's wife was dead, killed in their bridal suite.

The person who called the police was her wife's ex-girlfriend, Nie Lan.

At the hospital, Nie Xingyun saw Nie Lan in the intensive care unit.

The police had found Nie Lan in the basement of the villa. No one knew how long she'd been locked in there. Her face was pallid with illness, and having lost so much blood, she looked so fragile that she might die at any moment.

The fact that her own wife had been keeping a woman captive in their bridal suite was the most outrageous thing Nie Xingyun had encountered in her more than thirty years of life.

Even more outrageous, when the poor woman woke up, the first thing she said to her was,