Zhang Guoqing guessed part of it but didn't know the whole story.
The elderly Mrs. Hu was quite a character in her youth, and even now her beauty of those early days can still be seen. Hu Chunsheng inherited seventy percent of her looks, otherwise, how would Lin Xuelin have taken a liking to him?
Back then, the young Gu Xiuya, merely a girl at ten, was taken by Gu Ruyi's father as a concubine and secretly got involved with the eldest young master. Otherwise, how would the Gu Family's side branch allow her to follow them when they moved to Beijing?
She was fortunate that shortly after arriving in Beijing, Gu Ruyi's father passed away. The official wife hadn't even expressed her resentment before the young master rewarded her to Hu Daqian, who worked hard selling labor in the shop.
