No matter what Sheng Shi told her, that his wife was the number one in his heart, she didn't believe that in this world there was a man who, after being hit, wouldn't get angry at all. Saying such things was merely a way for him to save his own face.
The so-called "barbaric girlfriend" was just a phantasm conjured by everyone to deceive—men, from beginning to end, still preferred women as gentle as water.