Zhong Hua had traveled to the Zou Family at Taiping Lake without permission to find Fang Yi, only to end up in a dispute with Zou Xiaoqing over whether Fang Yi should stay or leave.
As always, Zhong Hua still hoped that Fang Yi could truly make something of himself, rather than living a mediocre and chaotic life in the countryside. If Fang Yi had been willing to listen to her back then, put aside his intense pride, and accept her father's full financial support to enter Wuzhong for further studies, he would not have ended up in his current plight.
Yet, if one spoke of selfish motives, Zhong Hua naturally had them. From the very first moment she laid eyes on Fang Yi, she had already developed a hazy and indescribable fondness for him. The age of blossoming youth, with its lack of full understanding of love, was perhaps precisely the truest way to experience love. Such natural and unvarnished feelings poured forth like spring water from a high mountain—sweet and gentle, yet rushing down in a torrent...
Chapter 176