Fu Gui had not expected that her errand to gather information would go so smoothly, and it was only because they had been waiting in that place that she could inquire in such detail.
The woman, not only was she unmarried, but she had also given birth to a daughter for the master, the two of them dependent on each other, enduring disdain and living day to day until last year when their lives took a dramatic turn.
If Madam Zhou were here, she would probably faint from excitement, for the refined man before her eyes was none other than her lover of fifteen years, Wu Lihong, to whom she had pledged her life in secret.
Wu Lihong himself had never imagined that the gentle woman would actually wait for him for fifteen years.
Back then, his intention was not to deceive by marriage. As a young man admiring beauty, he truly had affection for Zhou Yingmei; however, that year he received news of his grandfather's critical illness and hurried back home.