"Lady Su Yun could no longer keep hiding it; her younger brother Su Hai had always been straightforward, and even if she put on airs as Captain or the President's wife in front of outsiders, she would never do so in front of Xiao Hai.
Because the two of them grew up together, Su Yun often revealed her deepest, most fragile side to him.
"I... When I first went to the countryside, I was completely disheartened and thought that Meng Xingzhi had long since remarried and didn't want me, and I definitely wouldn't wait for him. Plus, the living conditions in the countryside were so harsh back then that I could barely get enough to eat, and as someone from the city, I could have starved to death if I wasn't careful." Su Yun paused, then detailed the hardship she endured in the countryside all over again.
Things like waking up in the middle of the night with hunger and having no other choice in the freezing winter but to drink cold water to pretend to be full.
