"So in your past life, you weren't a monkey, but a bird," Du Lai joked.
Fu Miaoxue sighed wistfully, looking at the sky, "If I really were a bird, that would be great~ I could fly wherever I wanted, free and unrestrained."
"Is there really such a thing as true freedom?" Du Lai chuckled mischievously, his tone dismissive. "We might seem unrestrained now, but we're just caged birds on this island."
Fu Miaoxue paused, glanced at him, and said nothing.
Du Lai guessed that she was probably recalling things from the past, and he said nothing more, instead leading the monkey to the bathing area. He thought, if those kids at home met Fu Miaoxue, they would surely envy her for living a life of ease since childhood, never realizing that Fu Miaoxue envied their carefree freedom instead.
...If she had also endured hunger, beatings, illness, and abuse, she would surely understand that sometimes, freedom is not such a great thing.
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