Uncle's Regret

"Uncle told me all this after he already had an aunt and a little brother."

The young man suddenly spoke. "Uncle got married very late."

"He didn't get married until I was about to graduate from elementary school."

"Uncle was actually waiting for that Missy all along, wasn't he?"

"Thinking that maybe she'd come back someday."

"But even now, Uncle still hasn't seen that Missy again."

Remembering the way his uncle had looked when he talked about it, the young man couldn't help feeling a little down. "Sigh..."

A sigh slipped from his throat.

"Ring-ring!"

The bright, cheerful bell rang across the campus. Before long, a jumble of footsteps and noisy chatter came from outside.

The young man suddenly snapped out of it.

Only then did he realize he'd lost track of time and talked for far too long.

"Sorry about that."

He scratched his head. "I think I took up too much of your time."

"It's fine. We don't have anything else to do during our break anyway."

Zhuge Yun waved a hand.

"Did your uncle really never see that Missy again?"

Zhao Luzheng couldn't help asking.

"Yeah."

The young man smiled. "Even if she was a monster, after spending so much time together, how could she just leave without a word?"

"And though Uncle never said so, I think that Missy must have been his first love."

"Compared to being rejected, disappearing without a trace like that is even harder to get over."

Zhao Luzheng murmured, "What a shame."

It was a story with no happy ending in sight, and no ending at all yet.

It had started off more beautifully than many other stories.

"Yeah. What a shame."

The young man smiled ruefully, but there wasn't a