At the critical moment!
The disheartened Bai Fengling had no choice but to reignite her fighting spirit.
She had to make a last stand for the sake of her reputation!
Wu Jie watched silently, without a word.
A very strange feeling.
There was no sense of joy from successful revenge, nor the thrill of watching someone else's embarrassment.
Instead, there was an inexplicable sense of sympathy.
Bai Fengling cared about fame and wealth, but she was forced into it.
Born into a family that favored boys over girls, she had carried the weight of her entire family on her shoulders, exploited and oppressed by her own kin and the Xu Family of Liuli City.
She had to develop a mindset that valued fame and wealth, craving money more than anyone else.
Perhaps this led her to become shrewd, stingy, and miserly, but her life certainly hadn't been easy.
Without the protection of the Xu Family of Liuli City, free from her family's moral shackles...