Rong Yang opened her mouth, then closed it again, unsure how to respond.
After thinking for a long time, she said softly, "A-Ning, your older sister knows that you are not a power-hungry person. Everything you did before was for me."
But Ah Ning, since the founding of the Southern Dynasty, you have been the only woman to hold real power in these hundreds of years. This is a weight that could be written on its own in the history books of later generations. You know better than I how difficult it was for you to get to your current position.
You've been in the Southern Dynasty all this time, so you may not have thought about what this means carefully. But after I returned from the Great Jing Dynasty, traveling from north to south all the way to Nanyang City, I could clearly feel that the situation of women in the Southern Dynasty seemed to be much better than it was ten years ago.
However, as you travel south from the northern border, getting closer to Nanyang City, this change seems to diminish considerably.
Upon arriving in Nanyang City, it seemed that nothing had changed in the past ten years; the woman was still as cautious and humble as ever.
At every palace banquet, they looked at you with various expressions and gave you mixed reviews. But I know that no matter if they were jealous or envious, they wished more than anyone else to live like you, but they couldn't.
You have been in the North for over ten years and have a huge influence. You have allowed girls to study and practice martial arts, and you have allowed them to leave the inner courtyard like men. Although they may have to undergo more severe tests than men, they have finally had the opportunity to go out and make a name for themselves.
The freedom of women in the North is something ordinary women cannot even imagine.
They could work as female tutors in private schools, teaching more girls to read and understand right from wrong, and no one would tell them that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent.
They could brandish knives and spears on the training ground, and no one would look down on them just because they were women.
They can be incredibly shrewd and adept in business, and no one will say that women shouldn't show their faces in public or that it's immoral.
Compared to the women I've met before, including myself, they have so many more things they can do.
All of this is because you are at the forefront, shining like the sun, giving them direction and support.
But Ah Ning, if you really give up everything and travel with me, their light and direction may be lost.
Ah Ning... I know you love freedom, but I want to selfishly make things difficult for you this once. I beg you on behalf of the women of the Southern Dynasty, please don't extinguish their light. Let them look up to you, admire you, and then carefully, step by step, move forward, overcoming one obstacle after another that binds women.
Ah Ning, I hope that one day, what is commonplace for women in the Northern Border will become commonplace for women throughout the Southern Dynasty!
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