"I've failed you, after everything you did to raise me."
Jiang Ye pressed Mrs. Jiang's hand to her cheek, tears streaking across the older woman's palm as she sobbed, "I didn't know what to do back then. It wasn't until I grew up that I found the courage to say all this."
At the time, she had learned that her Jiang Family parents were going to marry her off to a man she had never met, even though he was Old Commander Huo's grandson.
But he was a soldier stationed in a remote military region in the Northwest.
She remembered what she had read in books: the Northwest was the most remote region of the country, a place of endless yellow sand and extremely harsh conditions.
She knew that if she married him and moved there, she'd be trapped with no hope for a better future.
