I worked my entire life to become who I am. Lady Ningguang of the Jade Chamber, Tianquan of the Liyue Qixing. But here I am without the Jade Chamber, without the Qixing, and without Liyue. Am I not myself without these things? Am I nothing, without them?
Remove yourself from your achievements, Ianthe. From all of your acts, your connections and associations, all the comparisons you've bound yourself within. Look on yourself, then, and see your true worth, for it was you that forged these things. They did not forge you.
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Remove yourself from your achievements, Ianthe. From all of your acts, your connections and associations, all the comparisons you've bound yourself within. Look on yourself, then, and see your true worth, for it was you that forged these things. They did not forge you.