For a promise of staying together, he hid his identity and restrained his edge for twenty-five years, exhausting his savings and efforts, accompanying his lover from a distressed low point to the peak of her career. In the long years, he grew used to tolerance and accommodation, bestowing all his tenderness, but what he got in return was shifting human hearts and step-by-step scheming, even being plotted to leave with nothing. All tolerance became in vain, and the former tenderness was completely sealed away.