The family, marriage, and kinship form a whole.
A family has a common root, and its members are the branches and leaves on the tree.
But no matter how towering the tree, it will eventually fall.
The legacy of a family should allow the fruits on the tree to fall to the ground, take root, sprout, and grow into a new tree, becoming a forest over a century, where each tree is an independent entity, not just a leaf on a tree.
And now, Zhang Manman was like a fruit that had fallen from the tree, a seed no longer bound by her family members, truly free to soar high and dive deep.
In the future, when meeting other members of the Zhang family, they might be friends, enemies, or just strangers passing by.
"It feels light without burdens," Zhang Manman stretched and greeted Su Jie cheerfully, seemingly not saddened by the desolation of the Zhang family.
