These words came from Su Yiyi, who usually speaks the least. This meant that everyone had been harboring similar thoughts deep down but avoided bringing them up out of consideration for Xu Yingying's feelings. Su Yiyi had initially planned to suppress these feelings too, but her naturally kind heart and the evident sadness from Xu Shanshan's departure prompted her to blurt them out.
Some things can remain unspoken, allowing everyone to feign ignorance. But once they're said, there's no need for such pretense anymore.
Lin Qiong chimed in at this moment, saying, "Yiyi is right. Put yourself in her shoes. If this had happened to me, I'd never let Shanshan go find another man. I'd feel as though, when she's with another man, I myself am also being… well, you know, XXOO'd by that man."
