[Ellie's P.O.V.]
Words streamed out of my mouth so naturally and suddenly that Chloe was having a hard time keeping up and accepting them. Her face instantly turned pale as if she had lost her soul. She slowly looked at me seriously, slightly trembling. "What did you just say...?"
Just as I was about to speak again, the village chief interrupted me with panic. "Don't you slander me!"
I snorted and looked at the village chief with contempt. "You can just ask the local elders about this. Since you adopted Chloe, you cut off everyone else around her, so she didn't know about it for so many years. And when she started pretending to be crazy, and everyone else stayed away from her because they believed that she had truly become so, it only made it easier for you to keep lying and hiding things from her.
