"Though this matter was kept hidden, there are still a few who know the truth. Before my father passed, he spoke of it to this old man; he had always felt he owed Xue Haozhen, having left him to wander outside, unable to return to his forebears and claim his bloodline."
"And Xue Haozhen, under his mother's influence, always harbored a thorn in his heart against our Liang Family. That year, when he falsely accused this old man, perhaps it was because I am of the Liang clan, and moreover his legitimate elder brother."
"Do you know him well? What sort of man was he?" Gu Chengyu did not know Xue Haozhen's character; he had only understood him from what could be gleaned in those books, and felt that he should not be some treacherous, vicious sort.
