Cousins who supported each other for so many years, Chu Heng knew exactly what kind of person his cousin was. Put nicely, he was dignified and composed; put bluntly, he was cold-hearted and emotionless, fated to a solitary life. When had he ever seen him with such a look of embarrassment and annoyance?
In Jing City, which young master from a prominent family wasn't surrounded by wives and concubines, children running all over the place by the age of twenty-three? Yet his cousin didn't even have a woman to attend to him in his chambers, let alone children. At one point, he had suspected his cousin of having some hidden ailment; otherwise, how could he have endured these years with only stiff male attendants by his side?
