From North City all the way to the Great Northwest... I don't regret leaving North City with your birth mother. When we finally settled in a remote town in the Great Northwest, both your birth mother and I were very happy. One day, your birth mother told me she was pregnant, and at that moment, I was so overjoyed, like a fool, spinning her around several times."
After pausing briefly, Jiang Boya's deep, magnetic voice came forth again: "I was eighteen that year, and your birth mother was the same age as me. We were so happy about your arrival, eagerly anticipating your birth,
but little did we know, when your birth mother was about a month away from giving birth, I went to the street to buy her favorite pastries, not expecting... that's when your grandfather's men, who were sent to find me, happened to run into me. Without a word, they dragged me back to North City.
