Shu Quan was the first to enter the door, followed by Shu Zhao and a man who was holding a child in his arms.
Upon seeing the man's appearance, Shu Yu didn't have time to ask before hearing Aunt Fang beside him express her surprise, "You, you are Gu Xinghua??"
Gu Xinghua, holding the child, nodded, and Aunt Fang gasped, sizing him up, "Where's your beard? You actually look like this? Aren't you almost thirty? How come you're still so..." young.
He looks as young as a teenager not yet twenty.
Gu Xinghua smiled sheepishly, "I shaved my beard."
He explained, "I've always looked like this; I just appear young. When I was exiled to the southwest, it was just my mother and my young sister with me. If I didn't look mature, I wouldn't have been able to protect them."
Later, after he got married, he shaved off his beard. But his wife said he was too handsome, attracting unwanted attention, so he grew it back.
