Upon noticing, Cai Wei quickly hid behind a pear tree near the entrance of Fangfei Pavilion, afraid that they would stumble upon something and stir up trouble.
The forty-year-old woman sobbed, "Evil barrier! Who are you going to find? Is this even a place where reason prevails? If you fail to get your way and end up being beaten instead, our lives will be even tougher in the future."
The man roared in anger, "Can things be worse than they are now? I was a perfectly healthy man, now crippled, unable to secure a job, reduced to an idle life at home just like a maid. Mother suffers from a plethora of illnesses, consuming medicine daily and has turned into a full measure medicinal gourd. We had hopes transposed on my younger sister, thinking she might be able to marry a decent family and live peacefully for the rest of her life. But now, they've even promised her to a man in his sixties to be his stepwife!"
