"My parents were from the capital city, but I was born in Jiangzhou, so I suppose I'm from Jiangzhou!" said Qu Le hesitantly.

"Why did your parents relocate to Jiangzhou then?" asked Qin Wanru, with a flash of light across her eyes.

"I think they moved here... following their master. My parents were supposed children born to servants in an influential family in the capital city. Later on, they were separated from their master somehow and so ended up in Jiangzhou. ...