Chapter 432: The Beneficiary is the Culprit, Part II
"To marry Xie Xinyuan, you deliberately befriended Zhou Wangmei. You discovered she was pregnant before marriage, before Xie Xinyuan knew about it.
So, you invited an old bachelor to Zhou Wangmei's house and climbed over the wall when there were people passing by.
Then, you spread the rumor that Zhou Wangmei was promiscuous and had conceived someone else's child.
Initially, Xie Xinyuan had plans to marry Zhou Wangmei. Even if she was pregnant, getting married quickly before the pregnancy showed wouldn't affect him.
But once the rumors started spreading, even if they were false, everyone knew about Zhou Wangmei's unwed pregnancy. Xie Xinyuan, even if he still wanted to marry her, no longer dared to.
Because marrying Zhou Wangmei would mean admitting he had slept with her before marriage, which was against military discipline. Therefore, to cover up his own mistakes, he had to abandon Zhou Wangmei.
