Yet she so yearned for fame and fortune, desperate to claw her way up no matter what it took, never wanting to return to the swamp, unwilling to live a life like a rat in the gutter.
That was why she had changed, and why Shen Mobei had changed, too.
Later on, she truly did possess more; whenever she went out, she was surrounded by calculating people eager to curry favor with her. She could command the wind and rain, her words worth a fortune, yet the man who had once been wholly and solely devoted to her would never return.
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