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No matter how grand a funeral is, it remains just a funeral and cannot cover the grief of those still living.

Chen Pingsheng, now with gray hair, returned to normal three days later.

He also began to swiftly handle everything Song Yanxi left behind and the things that needed his care.

The two had spent their lives together; to say he isn't saddened now would be a lie.

It's just that he still has too many responsibilities, unable to leave with her at this time.

Yet just two days later, he was shocked by bad news from Chengdu.

His cousin, Jiang Peiyao, who left the entertainment circle early, had quietly gone to Chengdu to open a bookstore.

Later, she adopted two girls, one already twenty-two years old, the other just eighteen.

Jiang Peiyao spent the latter half of her life raising them, relying on each other for survival.

Nowadays, the older one opened the diary Peiyao had always left behind.

That's when they found out why she never married; it turned out she had a silent lover she couldn't speak of.

And now, she has rested in peace.

The elder adopted daughter, very filial, thought it over and made the first call to Chen Pingsheng.

She used her foster mother's phone to call.

Jiang Peiyao had left, wishing only to be buried back in her hometown village with a simple tombstone.

Chen Pingsheng told no one and rushed to Chengdu alone, only then realizing the impoverished life his cousin had lived all these years.

Jiang Peiyao had achieved financial freedom early on, but she never had ambitions in the entertainment industry. Though she had the best resources, she never misused them.

Once she left the entertainment world, she used most of her assets to support orphanages.

She kept just a small amount for her living expenses.

It wasn't until later, when she adopted these two daughters, that her life gained some more meaning; she became a mother.

The two young girls didn't know that the person their mother had always had in mind was the renowned founder of the Tengying Group.

The same man who once held a grand sea burial for his wife.

Chen Pingsheng, over seventy now, though his hair was graying, his face hadn't changed much.

He still maintained the appearance of a gentle and low-key CEO.

The two daughters took on Jiang Peiyao's surname, with the elder named Jiang Wangzhi.

The younger daughter, now just eighteen, named Jiang Wangchu, is attending a decent university and cried terribly after Jiang Peiyao's passing.

The three lived in a small three-bedroom apartment, even the decor was the simplest style with white walls.

When Chen Pingsheng arrived, the older daughter, Jiang Wangzhi, handed him the cherished little diary of her mother and said:

"My mother used to stare at it often, and it was from this that I found your phone number."

"Did your mother say anything before she left?"

"No, she just said she envied her cousin, and then she passed away."

Jiang Wangzhi was also very sad. She was just about to graduate and hadn't yet repaid her foster mother when she had already left.

The greatest pain in life is when the child wants to fulfill the duty of care, but the parent is no longer there.

The diary was well-preserved, though clearly aged. When Chen Pingsheng opened it, he saw a certain day in 2014.

The young Jiang Peiyao was once deceived into working at a deceitful small factory, and then her cousin's daughter, An'an, made an exaggerated appearance.

With her father, they rescued her from trouble.

Later, her brother-in-law invited her to join their entertainment group.

She started learning from scratch there, and later, her brother-in-law's business grew larger and larger.

She barely saw him a few times a year, yet she continued to record these snippets in her diary.

Viewing them as beautiful memories.

Until one day, she mustered the courage to apologize to her cousin, yet was relieved by her brother-in-law's response.

Afterwards, she began to leave the entertainment industry to live a normal life, eventually adopting her two daughters.

Becoming an ordinary mother and raising them carefully.

Until she heard on TV that her cousin had passed away, Jiang Peiyao also closed her eyes.

Leaving this world in quite a dramatic fashion.

At the end of the diary, she wrote another sentence.

"Brother-in-law, I know you will surely come to sort out my remaining belongings after I leave. Peiyao troubled you all her life, and in the end leaves you with one last little trouble.

"Although I adopted these two girls, they are obedient, they each have their own troubles. Peiyao can no longer help them resolve these, hopefully, brother-in-law can care for them well on my behalf.

"Brother-in-law, please forgive Peiyao's selfishness one last time."

Chen Pingsheng closed the thick diary and looked up, remaining silent for a long time before saying:

"Your mother left a last request that I should take good care of you in the days to come, and said you both have troubles. What are they?"

Though Chen Pingsheng sat calmly, it didn't mean his heart was calm.

In just a few days, he had lost the most important woman in his life, and a cousin who had loved him for a lifetime.

Anyone would find it hard to be in a good mood faced with this.

Jiang Wangzhi spoke: "Both of us have biological parents, but they treat us very poorly, and their intentions in wanting to acknowledge us don't seem pure. My sister and I have only ever wished to recognize Peiyao as our mother throughout our lives, and it will remain that way."

"You will never regret today's decision."

After saying that, Chen Pingsheng brought Jiang Peiyao's ashes and her two daughters back to the hometown.

He erected a tombstone for her in the hometown, compared to the grand sea burial of Song Yanxi, everything about Jiang Peiyao could only be described as simple.

Simple to the point of having nothing.

Her parents had long since passed away, and her relatives hadn't contacted her for many years.

Jiang Peiyao, the most low-key socialite in the entertainment industry, left in the calmest manner.

Chen Pingsheng stayed with her for three days, then brought her two daughters back to the Magic City.

And in the Magic City, he announced that he had gained two goddaughters, one being twenty-two-year-old Jiang Wangzhi.

And the other being eighteen-year-old Jiang Wangchu. Chen Pingsheng explained to no one where they came from.

Only at the end of March did he announce in the Magic City that he would hold an adoption banquet.

With the status of Chen's goddaughters, Jiang Wangzhi and Jiang Wangchu's lives would be vastly different.

Simply put, whereas before they were just part of the ordinary realm of living beings,

they were now prestigious goddaughters of a wealthy family.

Chen Pingsheng brought them to his penthouse garden and let them live downstairs, where they would enjoy the highest standard of elite treatment in the Magic City.

"Wangzhi, from now on, you two are my goddaughters, just like An'an. I will arrange for the best education and training for you. Whatever you love and want to pursue, just follow your dreams boldly.

"Do not harbor any mental burdens."

In this life, Chen Pingsheng truly couldn't do much for his cousin. Taking care of her two daughters is perhaps one of the few things he could still do for her.