One was obedient and compliant, one was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, one was playful and cute, and one was gentle as water...
Sigh, with these four in my life, I should be content. Li Yuan sighed inwardly. Last night's scolding from Empress Dowager Xia had made him realize that he sometimes neglected their feelings.
They were all top-tier girls, all at an age full of longing for love—an age where it was easy to act impulsively for it. If they developed psychological or emotional issues, it could lead to very serious problems.
The memory of his older cousin's plight suddenly jolted Li Yuan. She had been only eighteen or nineteen when she had tried to commit suicide by jumping into a river.
It was only 2008, a completely different world from the future of 2023. In this era, relationships weren't as casual as they would be in the future, where a simple glance of mutual interest could lead to a game of "poker"... the free kind.
