[Rural Life + Farming + Historical Era + Romance + Fate + Ordinary Lives + Based on True Events]
Lao Si is a rather ungrateful countryman. He left home to work when he was very young. His father died when he was six, and his mother passed away when he was ten. After their parents died, only the three children remained: Lao Si, his older brother, and his older sister.
The three siblings were only three years apart. To make ends meet, his brother left home to work, while his sister stayed in the countryside and helped raise Lao Si. Lao Si was handsome, and at twenty-five he found a wife. But his brother died young of cancer because he couldn’t afford treatment, and his sister-in-law was pressured into remarrying. The three children she left behind were, in effect, Lao Si’s own. Later, Lao Si and his wife had four children of their own, and all of them worked hard enough to get into university. But the cost of their education became the couple’s greatest burden. They took out loans and worked to put their children through school. After finally managing to educate them all, Lao Si never expected that once his children had made something of themselves and seen the wider world, they would start telling him what to do, criticizing him for being old-fashioned and out of touch. In his later years, Lao Si began to rethink what family really meant.
