Zhu Daodao laughed, "I'm just an ordinary worker and don't have great abilities, so I don't want to hold you back. It's true that my father wants me to settle down, but we can't just blindly enter marriage just for that. It wouldn't be responsible for either of us."
Shuixian silently digested this, as a girl who studied science tends to be more direct in her thinking. She even deduced some other points from the polite words of others.
"So, what you're saying is that you didn't actually like me?" Her pride was slightly hurt, although she originally thought it was just to go through the motions for her family. But when someone didn't like her, the young girl was a little hurt.
"That's not what I mean. I'm not good enough for you. I can tell that you are a very good girl, really." Zhu Daodao's explanation did not put the rational girl at ease.