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Now, the bond between uncle and nephew is beyond repair, irreversible!
In an instant, Old Man Mo seemed to age several years, looking utterly defeated, like a cock that has lost its fight.
Ever since he was sensible, he had been envious of his older brother's intelligence and favored status in the eyes of their parents. When his brother became a Scholar and married a beautiful and virtuous wife, producing an exceptional child, his envy had driven him into a destructive obsession.
He himself had failed in his studies and had an unlikable disposition. He could only toil away in the soil for a meager subsistence. Even the wife he'd married was coarse and not a bit virtuous. His own son was just as simple-minded, not half the man his brother's son was.