Overwhelmed by grief, Elder Xiao could only transfer schools and study abroad. Many years later, his parents insisted on bringing him back from overseas to marry and have children.
After they married, their relationship was one of polite respect. His wife gave birth to three sons and a daughter, but knowing he could never get over his childhood sweetheart, she eventually died of sorrow.
The two young men's faces turned pale as they listened, and they trembled uncontrollably as if they'd caught a chill.
Gu Jiaojiao was someone who had experienced the prosperity of a future age. She knew that even in such a flourishing society,
there were still people who would engage in sordid, despicable acts and harm others for the sake of so-called love or money.
Seeing the old gentlemen and the young men lost in sadness, especially the two boys, she worried the experience would leave a shadow on them.
