Looking back now, Aunt Rong's words actually weren't that big of a deal.
Someone like him, a prodigy, being with someone like her back then, indeed didn't seem right. Besides her family background, there wasn't much she could compare with others.
She had no reason to be angry.
He took care of her because of her brother, and later "neglecting" her for any reason seemed normal. Before that, he wasn't someone who was good at expressing himself or liked to be close to her.
But during that phase, after being "inexplicably neglected" by him while secretly in love with him, she became especially sensitive.
She feared her feelings would be discovered by him, feared he wouldn't like her and would be troubled by it, so she tried to avoid him.
