Rowan asked:
"How do you know that your family will be hurt?"
Nellie said:
"My family told me."
Rowan said:
"This is just an excuse they use to restrain you and arrange a so-called better path for you, but that's not what you want.
"You said he might not want you to approach him, but what does that have to do with you? Whether or not you choose to approach him is your choice, and whether he rejects you is his choice. If you don't dare to make your own decisions and just guess his reaction and then become fearful, that's just cowardly self-pity."
Rowan's face turned serious:
"My philosophy is that as long as you want to achieve something, no matter how much pain you have to endure, how much sweat you have to shed, and how many hardships you have to go through, you have to accomplish it.
"At any cost."
Nellie said:
"Sounds a bit extreme."
Rowan laughed:
"It is, indeed. Maybe it has something to do with the influence my parents had on me."
Rowan continued:
