Chapter 176: Old Stories_3

"Yes, this is not what I learned from my mother. My father met your mother before they were married, and I saw the letter that woman wrote to my father."

"Ah? How could this be? I can't quite understand why, if that talented woman liked Dad so much, she didn't appear when Dad was single, but only showed up right when Dad was about to start a family. It was like this the first time and the second time too, and there were many years in between, right?"

"It is hard to understand. I guess that talented woman must have had her own life or, rather, was too talented to live like a normal person."

"Brother, what kind of logic is that? Since when did talent and normal life become mutually exclusive?"

"It's an answer I slowly found after spending years with Mom and my little brother, reading a lot of psychology books. That talented woman didn't want to enter Dad's life; she just wanted to maintain the feeling of unrequited love to fuel her creative inspiration."