Clenching the hem of her dress, Chun Xu gritted her teeth, and as her cheeks twitched at Xinzi's words, her eyes reddened. Again with that line of thought, again with those reproaches. Did every woman of the world have to shut down her brain and present a bubbly front to be welcomed by the opposite gender?
"Master often says that men feel threatened by a woman's intelligence. I didn't think that you belonged to that category. I am not Dong Ling and pride myself on having a functional brain. Why should I not use that brain to minimize mistakes and incidents? I thought that you, out of all people, would understand. After all, it's not like you routinely play with the heartstrings of those around you to engineer the outcomes you desire." Sarcasm laced Chun Xu's last sentence, but sill she looked down, unwilling to let Xinzi glance at her reddening eyes.
