Because Old Master Qu deeply loved his late wife, he declared he would never remarry. Worried that he would live out his days lonely and helpless, his late wife begged Grandma Xu and Elder Xu to treat Old Master Qu as family.
Grandma Xu agreed, and trembling, she voiced a selfish proposal of her own: to hand over her biological daughter to Old Master Qu to raise, while publicly claiming she had given birth to a daughter.
Old Master Qu used his connections to find a newborn boy, claiming he was the child Grandma Xu had given birth to.
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