Yu Zihan listened, his heart tightening slightly, his hands slowly clenching into fists.
He never expected his father's childhood to have been like this.
Compared to his father, the hardships he had suffered as a child were nothing at all.
Shen Qing glanced at Yu Zihan's expression and continued, "If there was one thing the Yu Family did right by your father, it was letting him attend school with the other Yu boys.
But their intention wasn't to nurture your father. The Yu Family's ancestors were mere farmers. It's said that one long-ago ancestor suffered greatly because of his humble status, so he established a family rule: as long as the family could afford it, all school-aged boys of the Yu Family had to study and prepare for the imperial examinations.
