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Wen Kexing looked at him. It was if he suddenly didn’t know where to start; after a long while, he finally began, “I…when I was ten or so years old, a half-grown child myself, I took A-Xiang in. I knew her father and mother–they had died, and she was too young then, swaddled in blankets. Her mother had hidden her somewhere; their enemies had not noticed her, and she managed to escape with her life.”

Cao Weining didn’t even dare to make a single noise, listening on with an expression near pious.

Wen Kexing continued, “She’s actually not my maidservant…although we address each other like master and servant, I have never treated that lass as an outsider–she is like my own little sister.”

He smiled, paused, then added, “If I were to feign some seniority–I watched her grow up, so she is a little like my daughter. The place we stayed in when we were younger is not somewhere meant for humans to live in. I was a child too and stumbled many times over the course of raising her. I burnt her mouth the first time I fed her congee–for A-Xiang to survive until now, it wasn’t easy on me, but in truth…it wasn’t easy on her too.”

– 天涯客 Tian Ya Ke, Chapter 64