...The rhetoric here is very important; Zhou Wang spent more than half an hour pondering how to say this part.
What he needed to do was simple: turn "active into passive," using his "bankruptcy" as an opportunity to take an initially terrible situation—bringing all the women together—and turn it into something somewhat positive.
The human heart is quite subtle.
Previously, because Zhou Wang occupied a position of strength and aggression most of the time, while the women succumbed, they also carried some resentment in their hearts.
They knew they weren't the only ones and criticized Zhou Wang's "womanizing" to varying degrees. Some of them, like Ding Yi and Jiang Qingkui, couldn't accept that Zhou Wang maintained relationships with them while entangled with other women.
But now, because Zhou Wang suddenly laid his cards on the table without them being prepared, forcing them to make this choice, they suddenly didn't know what to do.
