Fu Hua, Kaguya, and the God of Marriage stood in a hidden corner, silently watching the old man ahead.
Such things were not hard to understand. They were mundane, and perfectly normal.
"If we gave them some money, that should solve it, right?" Kaguya suggested as she looked ahead, unusually not saying anything unreliable.
With money, they should be able to take good care of the two elderly people.
"The problem isn't money. It's that... the old man's descendants care too much about what outsiders think, and these two elders... still haven't truly faced this bond."
The God of Marriage sighed. Money could sometimes help, but it was not omnipotent. It might even have the opposite effect.
Over the past few days, the God of Marriage had not been idle. She had been trying to help... yet for some reason, both elders' red strings had lost their direction...
Their bond could not be tied!
"Then what do we do...?"
Realizing that things were not as simple as she had imagined, Princess Kaguya could not think of any other solution. After all, she knew nothing about this sort of thing.
"Wait!"
After thinking it over, the God of Marriage gave an unreliable answer.
"..."
Before long, night fell.
The moon was lovely tonight. Having given his room to the old woman, the old man could only close his eyes and rest outside the house.
In that quiet moment, the door suddenly opened. The old woman stepped outside and looked at the old man before her. A long-lost smile appeared on her face, but it quickly faded away.
As her illness improved, she had come to understand the predicament of the man she had once loved most.
She was a burden, so... she did not want the old man to be