Chapter 111: (3 updates)
He was sent to Canada during its coldest period.
He had made a grave mistake, so his family deliberately sent him away to suffer and be punished. The person escorting him to Canada took him to the basement of a house near Toronto’s Chinatown, left him with a few scattered Canadian Dollars and a letter of recommendation, then hastily departed.
It was a cramped room, with a small bed placed near the corner. To this day, he still remembered the sickeningly bitter, moldy smell that permeated the room.
The young man, once "the proud descendant of nobility riding through the long elm streets," had at that moment become a castaway of the family.
It was all because his elder sister-in-law, who had lost her child in a drowning accident, pointed at him and said, "Ayu is still young, don’t blame him."
He refused to admit his fault, much less apologize.
His own grandmother, looking as though she wanted to devour him, told his father, "If you don’t send this unrepentant curse away, I’ll smash my head against our ancestors’ tablets."
Lying on the cold bed, he suffered insomnia night after night. When he finally managed to sleep, he would dream of his former relatives, each of them looking at him with merciless eyes.
He soon fell ill, isolated and without support.
The young man’s pride wouldn’t allow him to yield; he stubbornly refrained from calling home.
The winters in Canada are extremely cold. He began to lose consciousness bit by bit in the room where his breath fogged the air, thinking he wouldn’t survive.
Later, he was awakened by a voice repeatedly calling, "Brother."