Lin Yushu smiled at her and said, "You clearly understand what I mean. I mean, as my first female official, you should work with me to build great achievements and let the men of the world see that women can also achieve things. You should also let the women of the world see that a woman's life is no longer in an embroidery building, nor on a bed with thousands of workers, but in her own hands."
She held Yu Lingling's hand and looked at her: "You are an educated woman, and you were once no worse than your brothers. But they can become officials, while you can only be trapped in the backyard. Are you willing to accept this?"
Lin Yushu's words reminded Yu Lingling of the unwillingness she felt when she was young, but in the end, that unwillingness could only turn into a sigh in the middle of the night.
Every time at this time, she would get up and copy the Four Books for Women to remind herself that a woman should be chaste and quiet, and that supporting her husband and raising her children was her duty.
Obey your father at home, obey your husband after marriage, and obey your son after your husband's death.
This is what a woman should do, so she endured it when Mu Chenyi forced her, a rich lady, to marry a prostitute as a concubine. She could also endure it when he asked her child to recognize someone else as his mother.
Even when her children called her "aunt", she had no choice but to endure it.
But now, the person who once wished she would disappear forever is holding her hand and telling her that she doesn't have to be like this. She wants to pave a smooth road for her.
She wants to let women know that they can also hold their destiny in their own hands!
She should have refused, but she saw herself holding the hand of her former rival and choked out a word: "Okay..."
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