"However, I really can't follow you back and act all happy in front of you. That's because you and I are really not close to each other at all. Not only are we not close, but every time I see you, I will be reminded of my weak and sick mother, who had been lonely all her life, and had died with so much resentment."

Speaking of that, Gloria lowered her gaze. No words were able to describe that kind of pain.

"My mother was a person who had never been willing to trouble anybody. Even when she kne