"I treated Ning Suxiang like the apple of my eye, and who would have guessed she was carrying another man's child, making me, the fool, a stepfather! Do you have any idea how much shame I’ve endured? Not only that, but I’ve lost my wife, and Mother divorced Dad because of her. Now Dad pins all the blame on me! Ever since then, Dad looks at me with pure disdain; there’s no way he’d ever bother trying to find me another wife!"
"There are four brothers in this family. By the time you three are all married, I’ll probably be a lifelong bachelor! I just didn’t want to be a bachelor, I just wanted to keep the wife I worked so hard to get—what did I do wrong? What did I do wrong!?"
Qiao Shan had never shared his true thoughts with anyone. Even when his brothers brought up such topics in the past, he had always deflected or changed the subject.
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