Today I returned to the countryside for a funeral. There’s an old man in his 60s in the village who is planning to remarry.

The bride’s dowry is 180,000 yuan, and she’s asking the children to chip in.
It turns out the old man’s first love, who had married far away, has returned. Her husband just passed away a month ago. She can’t walk well and is in a wheelchair, not wanting to burden her children.
Besides the 180,000 yuan dowry, she also demands that the old man’s son and daughter-in-law serve her, and explicitly states that they must be buried together with her and the previous wife in a hundred years.
Each of these conditions is more unreasonable than the last, yet the old man surprisingly agrees to all of them.
The children express their disapproval. The old man flips over a whole table of New Year’s Eve dinner. Seeing his children’s firm stance, he finally reveals the truth.
It turns out that when he was with his first love, she was already pregnant, but her parents disapproved. The families had a big fight, and she left in anger to marry far away.
The child was born and took someone else’s surname. The old man tearfully says he owes his first love and that child a debt. If he doesn’t repay it, he feels he will die with no peace.
In the end, the children agree, but they request a paternity test for the old man and her son. The test results show they don’t match.
The old man rushes to ask why, and the first love, looking confused, says: “I’ve always thought he was yours.” The old man collapses in despair...