Song Ci had been the patriarch of the Song Family for over a year and had witnessed two weddings in the mansion: one for the youngest, Baoyu, and now for his granddaughter, Song Ruqi.
To marry and to be married are two different things.
To marry is to joyfully welcome the new bride home, but to be married is to reluctantly watch her leave, back turned to you, gradually moving farther away.
No wonder some people cry like dogs when their daughters get married; they truly can't bear to part with them. The darling they've painstakingly raised is being taken away by another household, and when she visits the family later, she'll be but a cherished guest.
How could one not be reluctant?
When Song Ci saw Madam Song crying on the shoulder of Nanny Fang, he felt a complex emotion in his heart.
Indeed, it was reluctance. In the future, he feared that he'd only see that stubborn and proud young girl visiting him during the holidays to pay her respects.
