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The daughter-in-law insisted on having her own house and refused to live with her in-laws. Rao Jian pressured them to give money for a new home, but their savings were insufficient. Eventually, they decided to transfer their own house to their son, allowing him to have a new place while they moved out to rent a smaller apartment.
At that time, it wasn't just Rao Gang who felt lost; even Huang Xiang began to question her life choices. They had thought that once their son got married, he would mature and take responsibility. A year later, they welcomed a grandson, but their son and daughter-in-law ended up divorcing. Rao Jian wanted his parents to take care of his son but refused to let them live with him because he often brought his daughter home, making it inconvenient for everyone.
Their work life showed no progress either. The connections they relied on only came back to complain about the troubles they had caused. After the couple retired, Rao Jian continued to ask them for money regularly, even eyeing their pension funds. This forced the elderly couple to take on jobs again—one as a security guard and the other as a cleaner. Though they cursed their son for being ungrateful and unsuccessful, they couldn't refuse to help him financially.
When Rao Gang fell ill and needed hospitalization, Huang Xiang, who was juggling work while caring for her husband and grandson, finally remembered her daughter. She wanted to reach out, believing that her daughter should support them and not abandon them; otherwise, it would be illegal, and she could sue her! However, just as she made contact and confronted her daughter with righteous indignation, Wu Rong intercepted the conversation.
Furious, Huang Xiang contemplated taking her daughter to court. Rao Gang finally snapped and scolded Huang Xiang harshly. Wasn't everything happening now their own doing? They heard how others spoke about them—how they were blind to the truth, raising a stone as if it were treasure only to cast it aside when they had something precious. Their daughter was now thriving elsewhere; she had once been such a dutiful child, and now they regretted their choices.
They listened to relatives and friends who criticized them for driving away their obedient daughter while giving everything to their son who didn't care for them in return. Now they were unwilling to confront him but sought to exploit the daughter they had neglected. Did they not fear divine retribution? Had their preference for sons reached an unreasonable level? Did they have no sense of shame or right and wrong left? What kind of reasoning was this? Did they still want to maintain any dignity?
Huang Xiang finally broke down in tears. She was reluctant to admit her mistakes or accept that the son she had doted on all these years was truly the ungrateful one. They had invested in the wrong person. Huang Xiang wanted to reconnect with her daughter, but Rao Gang opposed it because he understood that bringing back Rao Jie would only mean forcing her to deal with the mess they had created. They had exploited Rao Jie long enough; she owed them nothing. Why should she inherit their problems?
He couldn't bring himself to do something so shameless again. No matter how tough things got, it was all of their own making. It was their choice, and they had no one else to blame but themselves.
In the end, before Rao Gang passed away, he wrote a letter to Rao Jie asking for forgiveness. Rao Jie did not manage to return in time to see him one last time, as by the time she received the letter, Rao Gang had already been dead for many days. Having not seen her parents for years, Rao Jie was not particularly saddened; in her world, they had long become mere passersby in her life. She returned home with her children to pay her respects, and that was enough to fulfill their bond.
As for what happened to Huang Xiang and Rao Jian later on, Rao Jie did not know. They had never sought her out, so she had no intention of provoking them either. Whether they had truly never looked for her or if they were intercepted by Wu Rong when they wanted to is unknown.
But that was all a matter for another time.
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