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It’s so wild that she gets shit on for being crippled (in general but also) because it was a direct result of leaving potent medicine within reach of an unsupervised toddler. Apparently she ate really strong, valuable, impossible to remake medicine (that destroyed her internal qi structure)….which wasn’t put away or guarded at all. They left a toddler unsupervised, then act like it’s her fault for wasting something so valuable as if she hadn’t been a literal baby at the time and almost died as the result of their negligence. They are one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country, but they couldn’t be bothered to hire a proper maid or babysitter just because she was illegitimate.