Lianshan, understanding her look of contentment, smiled and retorted, "How can that be? Even the children know how hard it was for mom in her early years. We should be better, more filial. As her husband, how could I let those kids outshine me?
Wife, just wait. I will certainly use a lifetime of effort to make this life without regret for you.
I want you to feel that I am the most important, and all that daughter and son stuff should take a back seat!"
Finally recovering from a bout of heartache, Liu Shouyi was caught off guard and sarcastically rebuked, "Pah! All that love stuff is nonsense, family is the only everlasting support and harbor. No matter how good you are, you can't compare to my bond with our eldest brother!"
Lianshan answered with a half-smile, "Oh? Second brother, do you think like that? Does second sister-in-law know?"
