Wheeling Gull Isle Put my finger on the spot

fengmian did not know of their slavery, mostly because his player didn't know it was something he was supposed to know (and because it's juicier if he doesn't).  

she says that everything is different now that they've left the south, but immediately follows it with the fact that fengmian is nothing here.  he is nobody.  whatever fondness he thought he'd be met with — she had news for him!  sorely mistaken.

i see.  the line of his lip is flat.  huazhen is lucky that he fengmian can't read thoughts either: to think that the sisters were the only ones who'd been dealt a bad hand in life was not only foolish, but selfish, too.  

thank you, huazhen.  it is all he says; he has no polite words left for this sister.