626 The Secret About the Past (244)

"I think your life is really pathetic. You don't have a mind of your own, and all you do is follow your husband and mother-in-law's orders. Why are you fussing over things when you don't even have the guts to do anything?" An Xiaoning remarked bluntly, not mincing her words at all.

Mo Li looked down and said, "I'd like to live independently like you do too…"

"You'd first need to be courageous enough."

An Xiaoning sighed and continued, "You probably haven't experienced what it's like to be truly hopeless. I believe that in every human soul lies two strikingly contrasting forms of one's self. Sometimes, one of the two would be completely subdued and suppressed by the other. Thus, when you meet with difficulties, the form that has been suppressed will rebound like a boomerang. Perhaps that's the case for you. You've gotten too used to taking things in your own stride and swallowing your pain and grievances that you've become weak and submissive."