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Deng Li was startled, looking up anxiously, "I won't go back, I don't want to leave my brother."
Her worst plan was to wait for her father to take her back to the Deng family, and the best outcome would, of course, be to stay with her brother in the Zhou residence. She didn't want to be sent back, for if she were sent back, all her efforts would have been in vain.
Zhulan was not discussing, she was just informing. There was no need for her to quibble with a child, especially since the girl was Scholar Deng's daughter, after all. The more indecisive Scholar Deng became, the more it showed that he still cared about this daughter, "The hour is getting late, I have matters to attend to, you should head back first."
Deng Li felt a lump in her chest, she had so much to say, yet due to the difference in their standings, all her plans turned into mere imagination. Despite her unwillingness, she could only leave, "I will leave now."
