Guizhi knew that publicly revealing this matter wouldn't necessarily put an end to her mother's delusions, but it would put herself in an awkward situation, and she could even fall from her position as a young lady to the bottom of the valley, becoming a servant looked down upon by others.
The class distinctions of this era were very obvious; it was still okay to be a commoner, but if one was a servant who had sold themselves into servitude, those ladies of the great families wouldn't even bother to speak a word more to you.
Besides, Guizhi wasn't a servant—it had merely been a temporary measure at the time, but her own mother had forced her to trample her dignity underfoot.
Even an ordinary girl from a village family wouldn't want to become a sold servant, let alone Guizhi, who had grown much over the years and was now so different from before. Yet she had to throw herself back into the mud—what would her feelings be?
