But now, almost twenty years have passed, and he feels powerless about the family changes.
When his younger brother was sold into the palace, he was resentful too.
He resented how his father's illness dragged down the family, causing his mother to work herself to death, and leaving him and his brother without a future.
He wished to leave soon, to go to the Underworld and apologize to his mother.
So in these years, he remained barely in touch.
But when he actually saw his father lingering on his sickbed, many childhood memories surged up.
If there was a choice, how would his father willingly remain paralyzed?
Living half-dead, burdening his family with suffering.
Sometimes people are like this, ground down by illness, without even the courage to die.
Enduring day by day like burning oil until the oil is exhausted and the lamp goes out.
This is exactly what happened to the old father of the Qin Family.
