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I walked out of the wedding courtyard still wearing my red dress. The servants watched me from the corridors but no one dared stop me. At the gate, the steward asked whether I wanted a carriage. "No," I said. "Tell your master that the Shen family will send men for the gifts at dawn." I walked through the night streets to my family's shop. My parents were awake, waiting for news of the wedding. When they saw me alone in my bridal clothes, my mother's face went white. I told them everything. My father was silent for a long time. Then he said, "Good. I never liked him." The next morning, the Shen family's men carried every betrothal gift back to the Lin house and set them in the front courtyard. Lin Ye'an's mother came out screaming. "You have ruined my son's reputation!" "Your son ruined it himself," my father said. "He left my daughter standing in her wedding dress while he entertained another woman. Ask the servants. They will tell you." The neighbors had gathered. The Lin family's gate had never been so crowded. Lin Ye'an did not come out. I stood across the street and watched the red boxes pile up. Everything I had brought into that house was leaving with me. It was the first time in years I had felt clean.0