First was her brother, Li Junjun. Li Junjun had always secretly admired Xiaoyan, but she never returned his feelings. After Xiaoyan went to university, she started dating a classmate, and they married after graduation.
Zhao Guihua genuinely liked her granddaughter-in-law. Though he wasn't very sociable or flattering, he was honest and straightforward, a typical scholar with no ulterior motives. He and Xiaoyan both became teachers at a key high school in the city after graduation.
Though they weren't wealthy, their lives were good, fitting their personalities well.
Li Junjun, still harboring feelings for Xiaoyan, didn't marry until several years after she did, dragging on until he was over thirty. By then, it was the 1990s, and without wealth or youth, he ended up with a very ordinary partner.
