While we were fleeing the famine, my elder brother, He Peizhi, insisted on taking in a mysterious mother and daughter, heedless of the danger to our whole family.
Later, the young woman was carried off by bandits and vanished without a trace, and my brother blamed me for refusing to save her.
Years afterward, his success brought us neither relief nor reunion, only Bai Yuanqing’s merciless revenge.
Given another life, I will no longer work myself to the bone for a brother who cares only for his precious Qingqing.