"If it weren't for you."
Gu Lingyi pressed close to Lu Man, her sweet breath brushing against him. "Maybe I could hardly have said 'no' to my dad?"
She came from a privileged background, immersed since childhood in an environment filled with happiness, sweetness, and love. Yet she was ultimately an individual with an independent personality and a free spirit. Behind the carefree life, the abundant food and drink, and the prestige before others lay the price of absolute obedience to her parents. Her lifestyle was taken from her parents and dependent on her family in the first place; stripped of that familial support, most people could never enjoy her standard of living purely through personal effort.
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