At the Fan Family, Liu Ruqing has been living in widowhood for many years. During the day, she has to handle the Fan family members with decorum, and at night, before falling asleep, she spends some time lamenting her own desolate loneliness;
Coming to the Earl's Mansion, she adds to her lament, feelings of longing for her hometown;
Today, because she witnessed a scene she shouldn't have seen, another lament was added.
Fan Zhengwen sent her all the way to Snow Sea Pass with clear intentions. Although she is Fan Zhengwen's sister-in-law, logically Fan Zhengwen, as the elder brother, should protect his brother's widow;
Yet, the person she once thought was the famous doctor uncle invited by the Fan family's matriarch, turns out to be of noble status.
Liu Ruqing's nature cannot be called cowardly, yet she still cannot escape the societal constraints of women being dependent on men in this era;
