Otherwise, in the highly conservative past, she wouldn't have had sex with Ning before marriage and even given birth to his child. During the past 18 years, she had never thought to marry another man. Although it had ruined her reputation because she was pregnant before marriage, there had been other men who had proposed to her, but she had turned them down. Thus, Gu Man indeed loved Tang Yunfan deeply.
Although she thought what Gu Ning had said wasn't likely to be possible, she couldn't help hoping it was true. She wasn't sure whether she would still have the same affection towards Tang Yunfan now like she had loved Ning in the past, but Tang Yunfan was the only man she had loved throughout her lifetime. He was her child's father, so she hoped that he could have a good life; even if he was already married and had his own family now. The next day when Gu Man got up, she had quite obvious dark circles.
