Today is Sun Youdao's 70th birthday.
By rights, it should be filled with guests, but Sun Youdao, who is almost retired, had already announced early on that he would not hold a celebration for his 70th birthday;
No gifts accepted, no guests received.
Most people in the Ying Capital City's officialdom praised Grand Tutor Sun for his indifference to fame and wealth and his humility.
But some who knew the inside story or were familiar with Sun Youdao when they served in court with him would sigh, Grand Tutor Sun had long been disheartened.
Sun Youdao's career was fraught with hardships; to be precise, in his early life, he hardly had any official career, being just a teacher.
Later, he became acquainted with Situ Lei when Situ Lei was still a young man, and the two of them hit it off.
