Chapter 10%
I went to the dressing room to change clothes. There was a girl in her twenties wearing a white dress.
Looking at her back, I was in a trance.
I suddenly thought that when I got married, I was also young and beautiful like her.
The girl was very familiar with me. She came up to me and introduced herself to me in a chattering manner, like a happy little bird.
She said her name was Kendall and she was Archer’s sister. She came here to help him and just turned twenty this year.
“Are you working for Mr. Bourn for free?” I asked casually.
“How could that be? I worked hard and my brother paid me according to the market price.”
Kendall widened her eyes in surprise.
“If my brother really uses me as free labor, it would be too bad. I don’t want to call him brother anymore!”
I was amused by Kendall’s deliberately exaggerated expression.
“I heard from my brother that your family has been exploiting you and imprisoning you for twenty years. They are all bad people! That’s twenty years. How many twenty years can a person have?”
Looking at the indignant look of the little girl, I touched her head.”
“It’s not too late now.”
Maybe Kendall was too much like me when I was young. I thought she was particularly kind, but I was also afraid that she would follow my old path.
I held her hand and told her.
“Go do what you want to do. In the long journey of life, whether it is getting married or having children, it is not necessary. Only you can decide what your life will be like.”
Kendall nodded.
“Sister, you are right. My brother has always told me so! Sister, you should also be brave and don’t care about the world’s eyes. Life is so short. The most important thing is to be happy!“}
I was in a trance again.”
My father and Bernard flashed in my mind.”
They always told me that men should work outside and women should work inside and women should not show their faces in public, but should be gentle, considerate, virtuous and take care of the family.”
When you reached a certain age, you should get married and when you got married, you should have children. Not only should you have children, but you should also give birth to sons to inherit the family business.”
My mother was imprisoned and I was imprisoned too.”
But was this a clear rule?!
This was just them imposing their ideas on me.
I had heard too many such words since I was a child and naturally, I thought this was right, this was the truth and I had never questioned it.
Although I didn’t like Hanley, I saw from her that women could also make a career.”
! lowered my head and looked at Kendall with sparkling eyes.
From Kendall, I also saw that women could live a carefree life.
There was no need to be trapped in the daily necessities of life, be covered in dirt, work hard and be petty.”
Bernard and others certainly wanted me to be like this.
With me guarding the house for them, they could do what they wanted outside.”
Bernard sacrificed me without hesitation to fulfill himself.
After that, I would no longer be disciplined by these unfounded dogmas.
