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Okay, I'm reading a book in Japanese and I've stumbled upon a passage that I can't understand. It's a narrative describing a location - a beautifully decorated city avenue. The description concludes with the following two sentences:

まるで自然に生まれた繊細な雪月花のふりをしておきながら、その実、これほどまでにあざとい作り物もなかろう。どれほど苦労をしていながらも、そんなものは屁でもないと見せなければ。

I simply don't get what the second one is supposed to mean. I would take it as an expression of the author's or some character's intention and\or duty to expose some negative inner details hidden under a veneer of beauty, but that interpretation falls completely out of context.