In his past life, Lu Changsheng had once fallen into the clamor of singlehood, feeling that going through life unmarried and childless was not entirely unacceptable. That was until he turned thirty-one, when a hereditary illness first claimed his father's life, followed shortly by the unexpected death of his mother. The entire world seemed to cast him aside all at once, and in that moment, he felt an unimaginable sense of loneliness.
Later, returning to the big city and drifting along with a crowd of fair-weather friends, that sense of loneliness lessened only slightly.
Yet he knew that as time passed, this solitude would only grow heavier, stirring anxiety within his heart.
Chapter 84