His father died of illness, leaving behind a huge debt. Zhou Siwan was forced to sell her ancestral home and took her mother and younger brother to live with distant relatives in Chang'an, where she was looked down upon.
Triggering event: I accidentally discovered the letters between my father and Persian merchants during his lifetime, and learned that my father had secretly invested in a caravan heading to Anxi, and the caravan was about to return to Chang'an.
