Song Hongyun sighed repeatedly as she spoke, appearing to grieve for her sister. However, there was not a hint of genuine sadness in her eyes.
Song Ziyun suddenly felt sick to her stomach. Looking at her sister, she felt a burning urge to slap her. She recalled the events from her dream: after her sister married He Qiu, she had collapsed from exhaustion within a few years, and not long after their mother-in-law passed away, her sister had died as well. In truth, her sister’s death had been partly her own doing. Back then, her sister’s health had been poor, and the cost of medical care, medicine, and nutritional supplements had been a heavy burden. Having grown accustomed to receiving gifts from her sister and brother-in-law, she had found it incredibly inconvenient when those offerings suddenly stopped. Consequently, she had secretly urged her brother-in-law, He Qiu, to stop spending money on medical treatment or expensive nutrition for her sister, suggesting that if she just toughed it out, she would recover. After all, wasn’t that how the family had always survived hard times? Her brother-in-law had agreed, and once the money and goods were no longer diverted to her sister’s recovery, he had brought them to her instead. Shortly after, her sister had died. Although she had felt a twinge of sorrow, the fact that her brother-in-law continued to provide for her had quickly extinguished any lingering guilt.
*My sister was supposed to be short-lived, so how could she have marri…
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