After a long moment, Song Yan nodded. "—Alright!"
Bai Siqi was instantly overjoyed, but the smile had barely formed on her face when she heard Song Yan add, "But not now."
Bai Siqi’s smile froze on her face.
"—Then when?"
"We’ll find an opportunity. Anyway, she won’t be leaving before the year is out." Song Yan looked at her. "Besides, you all already went after her. Tang Qiang over in the west district will definitely be watching you now."
Tang Qiang had a bit of a reputation; his childhood friend, Lu Ming, often mentioned him.
The man was a stickler for the rules and had his own methods for solving cases.
"Alright, I’ll do as you say." Although Bai Siqi was inwardly displeased, she still nodded sweetly.
"I’ll head back for now. I’m worried about the children at home."
As soon as Bai Siqi heard this, she urged him, "Then you should hurry back."
’I don’t want to see those three children at all—they cry way too much!’
Song Yan left quickly.
Mrs. Bai sighed. "If only you’d had just one child! You wouldn’t have needed to get a divorce."
’Taking care of one would have been manageable.’
’But three at once—that was practically a death sentence.’
’Besides, other families had a mother-in-law to help raise the kids.’
’But that old hag from the Song Family just had to go and get herself paralyzed from a fall. Not only was she no help at all, but she also had to be waited on hand and foot.’
Bai Siqi pursed her lips. "One or three, what’s the difference? I had no idea raising kids would be this exhausting! It’s all Song Yan’s mother’s fault. Who paralyzes themselves from a simple fall? She did it on purpose just to make our lives miserable. Why couldn’t she have just died from the fall?"
"And another thing—Fu Mingxue. It’s all that bitch’s fault. If it weren’t for her, I’d have my acceptance letter today and be gone by tomorrow."
’Once I’m gone, is Fu Mingxue really going to chase me to a school a million miles away?’
"Mom, do you know anyone else around here who got into college?"
Reeking of alcohol, he collapsed into bed without even washing his feet.
The next day, after finishing breakfast, Mrs. Bai went to wake her precious son.
She called his name several times, but there was no response.
When she pushed the door open, she found the bed was empty. It clearly hadn’t been slept in the previous night.
At first, she wasn’t particularly panicked.
After all, it wasn’t unusual for her son not to come home at night.
But for some reason, she felt a sudden, inexplicable panic today.
She rushed to Bai Siqi’s room and immediately began to shake her sleeping daughter.
"—Siqi, Siqi, wake up! Your brother, Chunsheng, he didn’t come home!"
Bai Siqi opened her eyes in annoyance. "Mom, what is it? It’s not the first time he hasn’t come home. What are you panicking about? He’ll probably be back by noon."

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