Or meeting a rival in love thirty years after a life or death fight over a man only to find out that her dress was more expensive and her husband a higher ranking official?
In that moment, everyone felt like they knew the answer, but in that same moment all of them felt that their answer was not good enough.
There were too many answers — the nature of the creature woman was to never be satisfied. To have a woman know how to be content was harder than asking Helian Zheng not to have stinky feet.
Hua Gongmei was stupefied. She had prepared for politics, history, astronomy, geography, and even arts like gardening, needlework, and tailoring. She was sure that with her talent and learnedness she could answer well no matter the topic, but for all her preparation, she had not been ready for this topic that asked about everything and nothing at the same time.
