Those who love you will naturally protect you no matter what. But only when you become strong will others, even if they are only after their own interests, be unwilling to offend you or force you to do things you don't want to do.
And only by becoming strong can you protect those you want to protect.
Gu Yaoniang knew Gu Xingzhi had a point, but she was still somewhat sullen. She said, "Our family has no power or influence, so naturally we have to work hard ourselves. But isn't Madam Xie powerful enough, being from the Xie family?"
Gu Xingzhi patiently explained, "It is precisely because she is in the Xie family that she needs to make sacrifices. Her strength comes from the Xie family, not from herself, so she can only rely on the care and pity of others."
She had been pampered by the Xie family, and therefore felt obligated to repay their kindness. So when her happiness clashed with the Xie family's desires, her happiness would be sacrificed.
"But she couldn't before! How could women be independent in the past! The higher the social class of a woman, the more she was confined to her chambers. This wasn't her fault, so why is she now reaping the consequences!"
Seeing Gu Yaoniang become agitated, Gu Xingzhi stopped being anxious.
He unfolded his ever-present folding fan, waved it, and said with a smile, "Now that the sage has introduced new policies, allowing women to participate in the imperial examinations, such things will become less and less common in the future."
Women are inherently strong and should not be deprived of their vibrant vitality, withering away day by day in the inner quarters.
Gu Xingzhi's thoughts.
If the new policy had been implemented twenty years earlier, no, even just fifteen years earlier, my sister Gu Huiniang wouldn't have died such a hopeless and tragic death.
Such a wonderful woman, yet she withered away before she could fully bloom.
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