"Those three bottlenecks might take years to overcome. Maybe I'll never get past them in my lifetime. Honestly, I don't have that much inner drive. I'm just drifting along with the times."
"And so the busy days rushed by, one after another. I seemed to have gradually forgotten my wife's death, and I never considered remarrying, even with more and more pretty women around me. They don't know I'm a [Lone Star of Calamity]. Who knows when my curse might kill them?"
"Sometimes, when I see Lu Tuyu and your younger sister's married life, I feel pretty envious."
"The other day, my daughter suddenly asked me, 'Dad, when are we going to the amusement park?' Before I knew it, she was already in middle school. Next year, she'll take her high school entrance exams. She's a big girl now."
"I told her, 'Dad's busy with work. You can go with your classmates.'"
"Only then did I notice some changes in my own mindset."
Zhang Ming gave a soft sigh.
Wang Fumin continued in his letter, "In the past, I would have said, 'Let's go this weekend or next weekend. You can bring your classmates.' I've always doted on my daughter, but now I have no choice but to focus on work. I want to climb a little higher."
"The [Lone Star of Calamity] ability has still changed me psychologically. I actually want to live the way I used to, but I don't quite dare. If something happened to my daughter too... I'd lose my reason to keep going."
"All I can do is focus on work."
"The old days are gone forever, and so is the person I used to be."
"Your big sailing ship should be almost finished, right? I look forward to the day we meet again."
"Wang