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oyal to Madam He; she would follow whatever the elderly madam said, blindly. If the old woman said the sun rises in the west, Ah Mei would confidently tell everyone that it does. As for He Ya, before...ed out again, his voice a mixture of sigh and pleading.Night blurred his face, blurred his eyes. And in doing so, it brought to the surface a kind of faint fragility and melancholy that was absent fro...