She let out a shaky breath.
"I thought I'd never see him again. I didn't even know his name."
Yu Sile asked gently, "But… what happened next?"
Mrs. Yu gave a bitter laugh.
"A few weeks later, my father said someone had sent a marriage proposal—from a business family in City S. The name was Yu Lin."
She looked at the ground again, tears falling one after another.
"When I saw him… I thought he was the man who saved me. The face was the same. The voice. The cold, quiet way he stood. I thought it was fate. I believed it was meant to be."
She covered her face for a moment.
"So I agreed to marry him."
Yu Holea felt her heart clench. This was something she never knew.
"After marriage… I waited for love. I thought he would hold me like he did that night. Look at me the same way. But he didn't.