Gu Yun sat on the side with his legs crossed, grabbing a small yellow croaker in the oil-paper bag to eat and waited for Shen Yi's anger to fade. He suddenly said, "Alright, Ji Ping, I know you're upset. Although it's all the orders of your parents, making promises and arrangements, if you do not like it, there is no need to care about whose daughter it is? Although the Shen family relations are complicated, can they manage people from the Black Iron Camp?"

Shen Yi was bewildered for a moment; his face became depressed. "I am not afraid, just..."

Gu Yun nodded his head. Growing up together as sons of noble families, they understood each other's difficulties full well without a need to speak them aloud.

"When I was very young, I heard my aunt and grandmother talking about my father, saying how useless he was, how he was not well-versed in either martial arts or literary, all day sitting idly in the Imperial Board of Astronomy, hanging around with a group of monks."

Shen Yi sighed, "My father's generation only has three people, First Uncle is disabled, his career path is difficult, and my father is the idling type. In those years, the Shen family's weight all depended on Third Uncle for support.

"That year, I resigned from Hanlin to enter Ling Shu Institute. When my grandfather knew, he almost fainted, wanting to expel me from the house. It was Father and Uncle who had protected me until the end, bearing the name of having no filial piety. At that time, even the family laws had been brought out. My grandfather's hand slipped, in order to protect me, my Uncle took a whip. He was already exhausted mentally, his physical condition was not good, he had vomited blood on the spot from Grandfather's hit. Since then, his health went from bad to worse, and he passed away before thirty-five years old. This is why I made up my mind and joined the army with you."

For guilt, for not having to go home and... To earn a reputation for themselves, to show the family whose eyes were above their heads.

When it came to noble families, people watching from the outside would more or less see how they eat and dress well, worthy of admiration and envy. Only the people inside would know of the never ending helplessness.

"Sometimes it just feels too unreasonable," Shen Yi said. "Too unreasonable. Several times going through life and death situations, earning a name for yourself, but returning home and opening the curtain, the attitude awaiting you is still the same. Unless I sever all familial ties and get out of the house, I'll always be dominated by these tangled relationships... Well, I only complained to you a few words, don't take it to heart. It's not a big deal. Compared with your family, mine is only a trivial matter."

Gu Yun laughed and said, "It's all idle talk."