@Pixi97,
(Btw what is Ripley name, before she reincarneted?)
I saw another comment mentioning Yuri, and I backtracked a bit and found the ex-friend saying "let's not meet again, Yuri" in pg11 of chp14, so yea, should be Yuri. It's quite obscure though and not FL's currently known identity anymore so I'll refer to her as Ripley in my following reply.
Yes, exactly, if the ex-gf-ex-friend really wanted to settle things properly, she should have done it privately and communicate. It's apparent that she had malicious intent to publicly accuse Ripley in public like that without proper communication to play the victim "the betrayed girl who had her bf stolen and relationship ruined by a fake friend" narrative, when she already looked through the text messages and could have at least suspected that's not that truth and should investigate further privately, was told that Ripley rejected ex-bf's advances and tried to not get involved with their relationship and shit further, and refused to break up and blamed it all on Ripley just so she thought she could "save" the relationship by painting Ripley as the villain who "wagged her tail at him and seduced my bf" and ruined her relationship instead of acknowledging her ex-bf fk them up and cheated and the relationship is over. Her dialogues showed that she's trying the make the narrative "you're the reason why my bf acted differently, fell out of love with me, and wanted a breakup, because you hung out with him and just by hanging out means you did something even if you're not the one pursuing and making advances and rejected him but I don't care, MY BF didn't tell me what HE'S doing is also YOUR fault, everything is your fault my relationship failed, my bf's changes and decisions to lie, cheat and manipulate are all your fault too". Using emoticons automatically means there's something, wtf??? Even after the whole public drama, she's still not over it and unnecessarily attacked and humiliated Ripley, IN PUBLIC again?? I'm not convinced that it's not done with malicious intent and that the ex-gf situation is "relatable and understandable".
Like, in a healthy one-to-one romantically and sexually exclusive relationship, your partner is not a possession like a toy whatsoever, they are not socially exclusive and can hang out with other people (regardless of their gender and sexuality). The romantic and sexual attraction may be there among the people they hang out with, because one does not suddenly lose their sexuality just because they are in an exclusive relationship, but the commitment and self-discipline are the efforts one willingly and persistently puts into the relationship TO KEEP IT WORKING AND NOT FAIL. Restricting your partner's reasonable social life or demanding whoever they hang out with to report to you at all times are going to make the relationship fail because apparently there's a big incompatibility to even go that far. If your partner socializes too much with other friends without you, communicate and compromise, maybe they can bring you out too or bring the friends in to hang out, or hang out less frequently without you, not blaming or restricting your partner (&friends) for having a reasonable social life. If your partner is fully aware of how to respectfully hanging out with friends as someone in a committed exclusive relationship, have informed you about the hangout plans, and made sure you're sensibly fine with the arrangements, and not in the childish "he should have known what I'm thinking even if I'm not saying anything or saying the opposite" toxic way, then platonic hangouts are perfectly fine, WHICH the ex-bf intentionally failed to do because he was aware of it being disrespectful to both ex-gf and Ripley, didn't inform ex-gf, manipulated and lied to Ripley.