Late at night.
I was the only one still unable to fall asleep. I stared blankly at the night outside the window. After a while, I took out my little pink notebook and faithfully recorded everything in the dark.
[Senior Sister agreed to have a baby. I'm so happy.]
[This time, she didn't make any excuses. She just kissed me for ten whole minutes.]
[This is a huge breakthrough in our relationship.]
[Oh, right. I'll be a good mother.]
[No matter which daughter it is, I'll give her the greatest and most equal love.]
Ye Family.
Facing the crowd's criticism, Seventh Ancestor domineeringly suppressed every dissenting voice.
No one dared voice a differing opinion.
He was the Third Ancestor, the oldest surviving ancestor of the Ye Family.
The First Ancestor and Second Ancestor were still missing, their fate unknown.
As long as he remained in the Ye Family, the Ye Family could only be his one-man court.
"This old man has made up his mind. Do as you please."
It was an utterly unreasonable way of communicating.
Rather than discussing matters with the clansmen, he was simply issuing an order.
Sure enough.
The moment those words fell, the Ye Family members' objections grew even stronger.
Yet under the Third Ancestor's pressure, not a single person dared utter a dissenting word.
What still echoed in everyone's ears was Ye Kong's mocking speech, no different from pouring oil on a fire.
There were always those who played along.
People like Ye Kong were not few in number. Quite a few were clansmen from the same lineage who staunchly supported the Third Ancestor.
These utterly brainless remarks began to make the still-rational members of the Ye Family feel repulsed.
For the first time, they wondered whether there was any meaning in staying in