C16 What a Pity!

Night Capital is ranked as the top livable city in the country, boasting stunning landscapes and a delightful climate, making it an ideal place for children to live.

As the children grew, she wanted to ensure they had a stable living environment. She planned to find them a reputable school where they could make close friends, attend classes joyfully each day, and grow up healthy and happy.

Housing in Night Capital was quite expensive, and with her limited savings, she couldn't afford anything too extravagant.

This urgency drove her to quickly seek out business opportunities upon her arrival in Night Capital, even before she had the chance to settle in. Unfortunately, her dealings with a man named Yuen Hongkuo, who seemed as if he'd escaped from a psychiatric ward, did not go well. The deal fell through, and she lost a potential one million yuan.

Such a shame!

Yet, despite her modest means compared to the wealth of the Tang family and their castle-like mansions, she was still a small-scale wealthy individual by average standards.

Years of hard work had allowed her to save enough money. While a luxurious mansion was out of reach, purchasing a modest house in a good school district for her children was well within her means.

She never skimped on the children's daily needs.

The apartment's fridge was always fully stocked.

After a relaxing shower and changing into comfortable loungewear, she took ingredients from the fridge and prepared a meal for the children. Following their preferences, she cooked two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a soup.

Her culinary skills were excellent, and the children savored their meal, complimenting her throughout dinner.

Watching her children's contented smiles, her frustrations and anger vanished into thin air.

As long as the children were well and happy, everything else seemed trivial to her.

Following their evening meal, she took the children for a stroll outside.

The little guys frolicked around her, their laughter ringing melodiously, their cheerful faces as radiant as sunflowers, brimming with life and free of worries.

Tang Yexi watched them with a smile, her heart as warm and overflowing with happiness as if bathed in a pool of warm sunshine.

Around nine o'clock, she returned to the apartment with the children and helped them with their baths.

After the two little guys had bathed and changed into their pajamas, they lay on the bed, face to face, listening to a bedtime story from the robot. Meanwhile, Tang Yexi went to take her shower.

Once she had finished, she nestled between her two children. They turned off the bedtime story and snuggled into her embrace, planting kisses on her cheek and whispering, "Goodnight, Mommy," before closing their eyes and swiftly drifting off to sleep.

Bathed in the soft glow of the wall lamp, Tang Yexi gazed at the tranquil faces of her sleeping sons, feeling as if she could never get enough of this precious sight.

Earlier this year, she had actually spent some time sleeping in separate rooms from the little guys. In W Country, it's common for children to sleep in a nursery from birth, not sharing a room with their parents.

Her sons were five when she decided to move them into their own room, which by local standards was quite late. Not long after the transition, she was jolted awake by noises coming from the children's room in the middle of the night.

She dashed to the room, barefoot and still in her pajamas. Inside, she found Hsing Peizhen with two men, trying to abduct her younger son.

Her little one was huddled in the corner of the bed, crying out in terror for his mother. Her older son, acting as the protector, knelt in front of his brother with a Swiss army knife in hand. His small fists clutched the knife's handle tightly as he fiercely glared at Hsing Peizhen, like a tiny tiger defending his kin.

In a fit of rage, Hsing Peizhen commanded the men to hurry up and seize her younger son, to take him away.