Don't let Ye Xilan's age fool you. She had never truly suffered growing up, and after marrying Li Xian, her comfortable life continued.
While she did suffer a great deal from her inability to have children, her life was otherwise free of worry. As a result, she held onto a kind of innocence that was out of step with her age.
For instance, she maintained the most beautiful fantasies about love.
She loved watching television dramas and reading novels, and had cried countless times over the tangled webs of love and hate she found in them.
She yearned for the kind of sincere, all-consuming love that would make someone risk everything, even though she knew she would never experience it herself.
Initially, she had taken a liking to Bai Xinyue simply because of her family background, her beauty, and her competence.
But when she learned that Bai Xinyue had chased Wu Sheng across the country and had even lost an eye trying to save him, she was genuinely moved.
