Chapter 85: The Civil Affairs Bureau Happens to Open its Doors

A year ago, on that overcast, rainy day, Gu Qili remembered the drizzle that persisted throughout the night and showed no signs of stopping even the next day.

It was also the third day after Gu Dezhong's death. She had completed all the procedures and laid him to rest in a cemetery he had chosen while he was still alive.

After the Gu Family went bankrupt, Gu Dezhong suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Though resuscitated, he became a vegetative patient, bedridden in the hospital for nearly three years—that was the most torturous period for Gu Qili, attending classes by day and keeping vigil by night at the hospital, exhausted to the point of looking haggard and unrecognizable.

There were almost no outsiders at Gu Dezhong's funeral, with only her uncle and a few of his friends who helped out. Her mother was abroad.