Bai Ruozhu began to envy Madam Xie. Despite the difference in their ages, she could see that Mr. Xie doted on his wife. Bai Ruozhu herself preferred mature men. But in her former life, she was too busy making money to have an epic romance, and in this life, she got pregnant without any chance for love, to say nothing about doing so in ancient times.
"Elder members of my family passed away one after another so I observed three terms of mourning; hence, I didn't marry until I was twenty-nine. I feel guilty for marrying such a beautiful woman like my wife when I'm an old scholar," Mr. Xie said, seeming unbothered by it.
Bai Zepei added, "Mr. Xie couldn't take the Imperial Examination due to the mourning period. Otherwise, he'd have passed it long ago and getting an official post would have been no trouble."
