Scarring Jasmine-Chapter Six Secrets
04/18/2024 Thursday 46-53F Cloudy Yu’s engagement party was two weeks away. Wang sat in his armchair, looking out of the window. He was expecting someone. A gust of wind rose, blew in a tree leaf. It swirled around for a second, then fell heavily on his writing table. Wang picked up the leaf—It was a maple leaf, starting from its veins, had turned half red. A good omen, Wang thought, not only for his son’s engagement, but also for something else. “Nowadays, the young kids never appreciate what they have!” He concluded. Perhaps it was because their lives were too easy, they could get everything they wanted without fighting for it. But in his youth, his life wasn’t like that, not at all. When Wang was a little kid, his mother told him that his father was a bandit who later joined the troops of a warlord, and rose from there. Afterward the warlord was caught and executed by the opponent. Being the second in command, instead of rallying the rest of the force and avenging the death of the
