There might never be a return.
Zhao Junyao didn't say it out loud, so Yue Er pretended not to understand.
She suppressed the bitter feeling in her heart and acted casually.
"Alright, alright, it's enough that you two abandon me!"
"As a daughter, I can't abandon you too!"
"Don't worry, Jiangnan isn't that far, my uncle is there too, isn't he?"
"When the child grows older, I'll come visit you!"
She said it cheerfully, with the same animation as before, but only she knew her heart was in agony.
She knew her father was not in good health.
Years of hardship had brought on ailments, not noticeable in youth, but impossible to hide now past fifty.
Mother's health was worse; enduring multiple hardships in childhood, and a severe illness after entering the palace.
The Imperial Physician once mentioned, that when mother gave birth to third brother and fourth brother, she was already weakened, then she bore herself.
The many births consumed too much of her energy.
