"Li Bao is no longer my friend, she knows that my past interactions with her weren't sincere. Moreover, there was also that advice you gave me before, the thing I did as you suggested—I suspect Li Bao might already know about it from her family," Xu Chunxia said.
Regret?
Xu Chunxia didn't deny it. In her view, people should fend for themselves, but her misfortune was simply bad luck in not ending up with Zhou Weimin, leaving Su Qing, the one from the city, to benefit.
She also recognized her own situation now.
Her reputation ruined, there was no hope of finding a suitable husband in the surrounding villages, and this year she had already turned twenty. If she couldn't find a husband soon, she might truly become an old maid.
Moreover, her parents didn't treat her as a person. They saw her as a loss, and it wasn't certain that she wouldn't end up in a good family—she might genuinely be sold off like livestock.
