"..."
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After waiting a while, Annie looked at Lin Daiyu, who was still crying, tears streaming down her face, and couldn't help feeling a headache coming on.
She just thought this girl was taking things too seriously and overthinking everything. She made herself fret over things that didn't need worrying about. Didn't she ever get tired of it?
But it wasn't right to just leave her there, crying in her ear, so Annie thought for a moment and tried to comfort her:
"All right, stop crying!"
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"At worst, you'll just get kicked out. So what if you do? What's the big deal?"
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"If it comes to that, they can send you back to Yangzhou, to your father."
Annie didn't mind either way. She was already well settled in the Divine Capital. Even if she went back to Yangzhou, she could teleport back here whenever she wanted, then teleport back again with a whoosh after she'd eaten her fill and had her fun. That was no trouble at all for her!
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"..."
But at her words, Lin Daiyu's sobs, which had briefly subsided, grew even louder. She continued to cry and sniffle for a while before slowly shaking her head and choking out:
"No, I can't..."
"Father only just sent me to the Divine Capital. If I go back so soon, looking like a complete failure, won't that only make him worry even more?"
"Besides, Father is busy with his official duties and in a dangerous position. If I go back, I won't be able to ease his burden. I'll only become a burden to him..."
"I absolutely mustn't do that!"
Yes, Lin Daiyu missed her father terribly. It wasn't quite that every day apart felt like three years, but she did think of him from