Being rejected time after time honestly felt a bit displeasing, as if he had lost face, and now he was quite curious about her.
Firstly, Ze had told him that his own sister had never been to school and was illiterate.
However, when they were on the island, her knowledge of everyday life, pharmacology, and some philosophical principles, was clearly not what an illiterate girl who had never left her rural home could possess.
Just now, when he had shown her the letter, she read it quickly, which indicated that she was not only literate but also very knowledgeable.
Secondly, back on the island, she claimed to have haphazardly mixed a medicine for him that by fluke cured his epidemic illness.
