Bai Ruozhu noticed that Lanlan was crying so sadly, not because she was whipped, nor because she was scared by today's events, but because the gift was ruined, and her heart was hurt.
It was her first birthday gift to her mother, and she took the risk to sneak out, resulting in her mother worrying for half a day, and the gift ended up broken!
Items like jade, once broken, can't be given as gifts, or it would be inauspicious. She endured hardship, suffered, yet achieved nothing.
"What's so special about it? I'm scared to go out again, but if I'm not the one to buy it, then what's the point?" Lanlan said as she started crying again.
Bai Ruozhu patted her back gently, comforting her situation. If she were her teenage self from the previous life, she would have cried over this too, so she understood Lanlan's feelings.
