At Old Guo’s birthday banquet, a thin layer of snow had already gathered on Guo Qilin’s shoulders.
Watching through the window as the master and his disciples enjoyed each other’s company and the married couple treated each other with respect, Guo Qilin felt as though he had returned to the night his uncle left.
That night, for Guo Qilin and his future with Deyun Society, his uncle had set aside every shred of dignity and humbly knelt before Old Guo.
But all he got in return was Old Guo calling him “bad luck,” while Wang Hui’s heavy kowtow put his uncle in an impossible position.
In the crosstalk world, where seniority and respect for elders mattered so much, Guo Qilin’s uncle’s reputation was completely ruined.
He had no choice but to leave Deyun Society.
Before dawn, he was branded a “traitorous disciple who turned against his master.” Old Guo even published a five-thousand-character post condemning him for betraying the bonds of human decency. From then on, Guo Qilin’s uncle, Cao Jin, vanished from Yandu.
Guo Qilin had also lost his only family member and support at Deyun Society, and life grew even harder.
As the saying goes, “Once there’s a stepmother, the father changes too!”
Ever since Wang Hui and Old Guo got together, Guo Qilin’s life had never been easy.
Old Guo stuck to his own unique brand of “tough love,” making Guo Qilin’s life worse than a dog’s.
Now that Guo Qilin’s crosstalk career was finally taking off, Old Guo went around telling everyone, “That’s all thanks to his old man’s good upbringing. Otherwise, with him being just like his mother, how could he ever have made something of himself?”
Not bad, pretty good