A moment of extreme silence.
At that instant, Li Jirou suddenly understood that everything she had experienced over those days had mattered to no one but herself.
Everyone has their own tasks to attend to, each believing their matters to be of utmost importance, while others are just others. What others do, what they go through, what has it got to do with them?
She thought her life was very difficult, yet outside, how many people couldn't have enough to eat or warm clothes to wear?
Having gone through the downfall of the Li Family, reduced to a slave, it was only today that she fully understood she no longer had the right to be wilful.
So Li Jirou took a small breath and then spoke slowly and calmly, "No, I respect Auntie very much and am happy to serve her. Perhaps there is something I didn't do well enough, which is why I wrote to you asking for advice. Have you forgotten?"
There was even a hint of distress in her tone.
