Seeing her like this, Xu Shulou suddenly didn't feel like talking anymore.
He glanced at her with some disdain.
Lu Jingzhi: "…You wanted to talk on your own, why are you looking at me like that? I'm not here to hear gossip, I want to help you get over your troubles."
"Well, I really appreciate it." Xu Shulou tried to calm himself down.
"You're welcome."
Xu Shulou stared at her, and she returned a smile.
"My biological father was a commoner who became an official on his own efforts. His position was not high, but he was content. The Xu family had been in the bureaucracy for generations, but there were few people in the family, and most of them died early. The year I was born, there were only three of us left in the Xu family."
"In the Imperial Capital, nobles are divided into different classes, and obviously, the Xu family is on the lowest rung."
"However, the Emperor highly regarded our family, and after I was born, my father's career took off."
