The sky didn't look grey at dusk but bright blue. The mountains were shrouded in the faint red afterglow. A new crescent moon hung in the sky, and several stars blinked around it.

He Danggui sighed and said, "I'm not blaming my mother or Mr. Nie. I'm just afraid my mother will get hurt. Although Mr. Nie won't do anything like that, Guan Yun and Ling Miaoyi will use it and bring trouble to my mother. You know this, Qing'er. My mother is different from me. She's too weak to ...