"What did you ask him to do?" Wu Ling asked.
Qin Kai scratched his head. "It was a ghost marriage, just the usual ghost marriage stuff! We didn't understand it either... My wife thought our son needed someone to look after him... He never got married, so there was always something incomplete, something wrong. A ghost marriage would be good. At least he'd get married. It wasn't like we were hurting anyone. We weren't hurting anyone! We just wanted... The other side, the woman's side, too! We'd definitely talk it over with them first. If they only had one child too, and had lost them in middle age, then... our two families... could at least become friends. It really was... just too painful..."
Qin Kai's tears fell onto the floor. "It was too painful... You young people just don't understand. We raised him all those years, watched him grow up day by day. Then suddenly, suddenly he was just... We weren't prepared at all. When we got the call that day and rushed to the hospital, neither of us knew what we were doing. Those few days felt like we were floating in the sky. We had no idea what was happening... Our son was just gone... Just like that... He'd only just started working. He was still like a child. He'd stay up all night watching games with his friends, said he'd take us traveling, said he'd go watch a game in person with his friends, and he still liked playing those childish games. He was only twenty-five! Only... twenty-five... He'd never dated anyone, never married, never had a child... Neither of us had even retired yet... We tried introducing him to people, but he wasn't interested. We'd always thought he hadn't grown up. This time, we found out