Yuan Feng nodded, his voice choked, "Your mother Yuan Min...she has always been secretly in love with your father. But at that time, he had already fallen for someone else and was fervently pursuing that girl."
"It's Yi Xiaodan, right? Everyone in Jin City's elite circles knows about it. Even after Yi Xiaodan passed away unexpectedly without marrying my father, he continued... to refer to her as his deceased wife and donates in her name every year."
"Yes, that's right, everyone knows about this. But what I want to tell you is... your mother, in order to be with your father, she also made a great sacrifice; don't blame her."
Upon hearing this, Li Zishen couldn't help but think of the rumors about Madam Lai's shotgun wedding.
As a child, he often witnessed his parents arguing over trivial matters and engaging in endless disputes, even living separately for years—one residing in East Suburb Li Garden, the other in Nanjiang Villa.
