"Is it that easy?" Xiao Tian said, sobbing as she wiped her tears.
"It's indeed very difficult," Ning Youguang said. "As humans, our whole life is a struggle with desires. We're either taming desires or being tamed by them, so don't be too anxious to tame them all at once. But once you become aware and want to be the person who tames desires, who takes back sovereignty over your life and lives freely, you have to work hard at it."
Xiao Tian said, "I work so hard now so that I can be free in the future."
Ning Youguang laughed, "Your path to 'freedom' is being driven by capitalism, and in the end, it will only satisfy the consumerism they brag about, never achieving what you truly want."
Xiao Tian moved like a puppet, pulled by the strings of consumerism, yet she thought she was free.
"I know about consumerism," Xiao Tian said, somewhat agitated.
She understood the dangers of overconsumption better than anyone.
