Changes in Perspective

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"What's wrong?"

Looking at Xi Shenlian, who seemed lost in thought beside her, Tian Yuanli asked calmly:

"Why are you sitting there with such a deep-thinking expression..."

Although he could hear the concern in her words, because of her personality and habits, Tian Yuanli always maintained an expressionless face on the surface in Xi Shenlian's eyes.

Only her eyes, the windows to her soul, revealed faint traces of emotion.

How should this be described...

Perhaps the only way to put it was that being expressionless had become Tian Yuanli's passive skill.

She clearly had no intention of deliberately maintaining that expression, but Tian Yuanli habitually wore it anyway, making her seem very unapproachable.

That was precisely why, at home, all the maids respected Tian Yuanli the most.

Compared with Qian Shan Xuehui and the others, who openly displayed their emotions, Tian Yuanli's thoughts were genuinely much harder to understand.

However.

Because everyone knew that Tian Yuanli had a fairly good temper, that respect remained within normal limits. It was more respect than fear and did not produce any particularly obvious negative effects.

Besides, even if they were scared out of their minds, none of the maids could possibly show or harbor any impolite thoughts toward the mistresses of Purple Dreamland Company.

To them, that would be countless times worse than death.

At present.

After hearing Tian Yuanli ask why he had fallen into thought,

Xi Shenlian hesitated briefly for one second.

Then he answered without the slightest attempt to hide it:

"I'm just wondering whether I really did set a bad example... I think I really have corrupted Xuehui and the others..."

Recalling what had happened earlier,

he muttered somewhat helplessly in front of Tian Yuanli:

"They actually learned how to be so blatantly hypocritical..."

Upon hearing this,

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