"Can you?" Zulin asks.
For the first time in her life, Zulin feels hope. Hope of being saved.
Because of Amon's questions, she was forced to confront herself, ask herself if she wanted to continue living as a puppet, hiding her feelings, letting others tell her what to do.
And the answer was a resounding No. No, she didn't want to be anyone's puppet anymore.
She wanted to be her own woman. She wanted to live her own life, free of any control. She didn't want to listen to some old narcissistic man who was too brutal in his ways.
She wanted to be free of her oppressive environment.
And now the man before her is telling her that she can be free? How can she believe it so easily? This has been her whole life. She never tried to fight back because she knew it was futile.
But seeing her daughter fight back, trying to take the reins of her own life, made Zulin scared. And when she found out that her daughter had a lover, and it was none other than her teacher, she was terrified.
