阿藍和特凡離開後，其餘二人的百川和桃艷便和父母一起生活，直到利家四人後來才獲准前往香港。在此期間，李家發生翻天巨變。
祥和無法返回香港後，利老爺對他徹底大失望了，並在一所老學校當教師時，搞了婚外情。此後，他的妻子王氏夜夜外出打麻將。
她要求三個女兒輟學，承擔起養家的重任。大女兒利智慧早早結婚，嫁了金大河去了悉尼。二女兒利自由隨後也嫁了，和丈夫去了多倫多生活。三女兒利愛恩擁有罕見的公主基因，愛恩以絕世美貌，在危機四伏的旺角，攫取了她需要的財富、權力和地位。
阿藍往後常常提起自己，曾像母親一樣照顧特凡。她想起特凡睡在雙層床上的日子，那張床以前是利家三姐妹睡過的。她曾在老三姨愛恩的床上發現過極其不堪入目的照片，以至於她禁止特凡拿來觀看。
可憐的特凡非常喜愛三姑，把她當成女神。他將永遠無法忘記那些照片給他的恐懼，所以阿藍只好把照片藏在秘密的地方。爺爺對她很不友善。他認為女孩沒用、沒受教育也沒什麼大不，就像他自己的女兒一樣也沒有呀。
After Blue Ri went away with Tefan, Coast Ri and Peach lived with their parents until they were allowed to go to Hong Kong in later years. During that time, the Ri family went through a drastic change.
When Heaven couldn't come back to Hong Kong, Court Ri gave up on him and had an extramarital affair while teaching in an old school. His wife Bah Wong went out night after night for Mahjong since then.
She asked her three daughters to abadon school and start supporting the family. The eldest daughter Reason married early and went to Sydney with River Kim. Her second daughter Freeya went to Toronto next with her husband. Third daughter had the rare Princess Genes and used her beauty to get herself all the wealth, powers and status in the tremendously dangerous Mongkok.
Blue Ri often mentioned she had acted as a surrogate mother to Tefan. She thought of the days when Tefan slept in a double-deckered bed where Heaven's sisters had slept before. She had once found photos on Third Aunt, Hearty Ri, bed that was so obscene that she forbid Tefan to see it.
Poor Tefan loved Aunt Hearty and thought of her as a goddess. He could never undo the horror he saw in those photos so Blue had to hide those photos in secret places. Grandpa was unkind to her. He thought it's okay for girl to be useless and uneducated much like his own daughters.
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