"Why?" Qin Su asked, puzzled. "Among friends, people of the same sex are called confidants. It's also normal for women to be regarded as confidantes."
"I disagree with your understanding. Friends are friends, regardless of gender, and they appreciate each other. As for the term 'soulmate,' it's not that you admire the other person or the other person admires you for them to be called a soulmate. Admiration is not the same as appreciation, understand?"
Qin Su looked at Mo Lan and remained silent for a few moments. "Your explanation is quite insightful. But that's how society is. Even if you're friends, you might be mistaken for confidantes just because of your gender or social status. What would you do then?"
Explaining to the crowd is difficult; public opinion can be overwhelming, and it cannot be explained in just a few words.
Being too concerned leads to falling into a cliché.
Mo Lan looked at the steaming teacup in front of her and smiled. "It's nothing. I may never be anyone's confidante in this lifetime. I'm too cold-hearted and don't understand romance. I'm wasting the word 'confidante'."
Qin Su: "......"
This woman has a good grasp of her own position; she's quite self-aware.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm not that delicate little girl, nor am I a lovesick teenager. If someone makes me angry, I'll choose to resolve it with force instead of acting all wronged and crying. In your eyes, a woman like me should be considered a shrew, or you could call me a tough woman."
Qin Su: "...It's not easy to analyze yourself so clearly. I admire you. Here, let me toast this tough woman with tea instead of wine."
Mo Lan took a sip of tea, stared into Qin Su's eyes, hesitated for a moment, but still expressed her true thoughts.
"Qin Su, I wonder if you've noticed that, in essence, you and I are actually the same kind of people. Regardless of our status, we are both people who refuse to admit defeat and don't want anyone to control our destiny. Ambition, arrogance, and recklessness are the labels attached to us. So, as friends, we can drink and chat, and enjoy romantic evenings, but wanting anyone to control anyone else is not only wishful thinking, but also laughable."
"Therefore, I'm destined not to be a confidante, but I can barely be a friend."
Qin Su looked at Mo Lan, staring straight at her. After a long while, she finally curved her lips into a smile. "You're right. We're essentially the same kind of people. Let's be good friends then."
Although this woman was arrogant, what she said was not wrong. He did have the idea of recruiting her, but every time he mentioned it, she would dismiss it with disdain and even directly mock him.
It seems she had long understood her own thoughts; a clever and cunning woman.
"Being born a woman is a bit of a waste of her talents."
"Who says a woman can't make her own way in the world? You've underestimated women. It's a pity I have no ambition to be king or conqueror, otherwise, who knows, we might have fought each other on the battlefield one day."
In the dim light, Mo Lan stared at Qin Su's blue fox mask and the unfathomable eyes hidden beneath it, and couldn't help but make a teasing remark.
From the moment she met Qin Su, she knew he was ambitious. Even if he didn't replace the Ji Kingdom, he would create a new empire—she had no doubt about that. This was also why she had always kept her distance. A person with too much ambition is bound to have many troubles, and her business empire hadn't truly begun yet; she didn't have time to deal with those problems.
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