The family wasn't rigidly old-fashioned; they allowed Aunt Guan to secretly observe each suitor from behind a screen. As a result, Aunt Guan took a liking to Ouyang Xun and shyly agreed to the marriage.
What was supposed to be a beautiful marriage between two people in love was tragically thwarted when a sudden tragedy struck the family. The father was beheaded, and the mother, in a fit of anger, committed suicide, leaving only Aunt Guan alive. The Ouyang family immediately wrote a letter unilaterally announcing the annulment of the marriage. Ouyang Xun, enraged, left home and his whereabouts became unknown.
With her parents gone, all sorts of shady characters came to her house demanding payment for their debts. Having witnessed the coldness of human nature, Aunt Guan, in utter desperation, agreed to the middleman's suggestion and sold herself into a brothel to settle her family's debts.
With her talent and beauty, she quickly became the top courtesan in the brothel. But five or six years later, for unknown reasons, the brothel's owners, Mr. and Mrs. Hua, were murdered in their room, nearly half the girls were hacked to death, and the survivors fled in the chaos. Aunt Guan was entrusted with a dangerous mission, promising to raise Mr. Hua's two-year-old daughter, Hua Yuhe. In return, Mr. Hua offered to give Aunt Guan the brothel.
Looking at the pitiful infant, Granny Guan kept her. Fate gave Granny Guan another chance. When Hua Yuhe was four years old, Ouyang Xun contacted Granny Guan after many twists and turns, expressing his willingness to disregard the opinions of the world and take her away to a distant land, where they would live in anonymity.
Aunt Guan was not unmoved, but thinking of the suffering she had endured over the years, she couldn't bear it and burned the letter in a fit of anger. From then on, Ouyang Xun never appeared again for twenty years.
Unexpectedly, the man she hated and regretted so much was her neighbor, who had been running a stall in the ghost market for three years, silently accompanying her for three years, and she hadn't even recognized him.
After hearing this, Lan Yamei exclaimed, "So there really are devoted people in this world! Aunt Guan, you can't be so foolish anymore and waste your life. Now, Uncle Ouyang is still all alone, he must still be waiting for you."
Aunt Guan remained silent, seemingly still hesitant to take a step forward. After all, her life had been filled with hardship, and she dared not fathom the nature of humanity.
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