Tian Ni'er looked somewhat bewildered, for she had been groping her way through life on her own. Without a stage of growth, after her grandmother's death, she was suddenly thrust into the cruelness of the mundane world.
She was proud; she didn't ask for handouts, and she was also inferior, for she couldn't be sure what love was;
She yearned for love, and yet she dared not pursue it;
She was capable of murder, but that was only when she could no longer bear it...
There were many interpretations to Fang Chuyi's silence, from belief to doubt, because she had no experience to tell her what was right, nor anyone to provide her the answers she wanted to know.
But when Fang Chuyi uttered the word "respect," she suddenly understood, she understood Fang Chuyi's state of mind.
To respect someone is to respect their choices, not to arrogantly dictate and try to fit everything into one's own paltry understanding of the world.
"But I don't know if you, Ye Biluo, are human?"