Kapitel 2267: We have never been equals.

Instead, the actor flashed her a forced smile. "You don't have to apologize."

"Why?"

"Because your uttered words are nothing but facts."

The heartwrenching sight of him looking up at her with that forced smile on his face cut the young lady's heart deep. "I'm a pitiful, lowly, and cheap person… Haven't I all along been humbly pandering to you people?"

His words struck the young missy dumbfounded.

"In your eyes, I'm nothing but a possession that can be trampled on. She, in contrast, has always treated me like a decent human being… and has, at least, let me salvage what's little left of my pride."

"…"