This was a big deal, as the two elderly women found plenty to talk about.
Discussing husbands and children is second nature to women, and talking about their own kids led them to the idea of kinship through marriage.
Sun Qing had spent these years in the military, and apart from her comrades, she had no chance to meet any other men. Before she started dating He Yizhe, she'd had a boyfriend. That was right when she first joined the ZMI Agency, but their relationship lasted less than a month before the man was sent away on a special assignment.
Separation is the most powerful killer of affection, especially in the budding stage of a relationship. Before long, the connection between the two, who had lost contact for a while, faded, and in the end, the man called to propose a mutual breakup. Sun Qing had no objections; their feelings weren't that deep at the time, and the matter was soon forgotten.
And her knowledge of He Yizhe's situation came from her own mother.
