Hearing that the Old Lady planned to leave with Gong Mingxia, the Gong Family household suddenly buzzed with excitement; however, the Old Lady and Gong Mingxia didn't even glance at them, heading straight into the house to lock the door and sleep, completely uninterested and too weary to listen to whatever commotion was going on outside.
An illness had allowed the Old Lady to witness the ugly faces of her children, and for the remainder of her life, she wished only to live quietly for herself and to stop thinking about them anymore.
The deeper the love had been, the sharper the blame, the deeper the love once was, the more painful it was now.
In the village, those who needed to say farewell had already been greeted by the Old Lady during the funeral. Thus, the next morning, Gong Mingxia, supporting her mother and carrying a handbag, stepped on the dew before dawn and made it to the town, catching the first bus away from the home she had lived in for most of her life.
