When children are present, no matter how poor or difficult life may be, any place can be called home.
Once the children are gone, what is the point of living in an opulent house alone?
Jiang Nan Fang desperately grabbed Ke Teng's collar and shook her head.
"No. I want to find Zhan Bei Jue, I don't want to go back! I don't believe the children are gone just like that. Ke Teng, take me to him!"
Ke Teng: "Zhan Bei Jue is in the intensive care unit. What's the use even if you find him?"
"Listen to me, Nan Fang. Rest well first, take a nap. When you wake up, maybe he will have woken up too."
Reason told Jiang Nan Fang not to sleep, but her physiological stress had reached its limit, urging her to self-preservate through hypnosis.
As soon as she got into the car, she fell asleep again within a minute, in a daze.
She slept for over a month.
For over a month, Jiang Nan Fang neither ate nor drank, spoke, nor saw anyone, relying solely on daily nutrient drips to sustain her.
She spent most of her time in a stupor, occasionally waking only to struggle to recall her old phone's ID and password, trying to recover photos of her children from her phone.
She eventually remembered, and her waking entertainment became silently browsing through her children's photos while shedding tears.
Seeing her lifeless, half-dead state every day, Ke Teng was very worried.
Fearing she would develop depression if she continued like this, he tried many ways to help her.
For example: taking her out to relax, watch movies, and see beautiful scenery.
But Jiang Nan Fang seemed to have had her soul extracted; no matter what she saw, she couldn't muster any enthusiasm.
Time flew by, and two months later, on the eighteenth day of the eleventh lunar month, things finally took a turn.
That day, Jiang Nan Fang was lying in bed as usual, letting the doctor administer her IV drip.
After being pricked daily for two consecutive months, her hands were almost devoid of healthy skin.
Bruises and scars covered them everywhere.
After the injection, the doctor turned on the projector Ke Teng had prepared for her.
"Since you have nothing to do, watch the news or a TV series. Many major international events have happened recently, and many good TV series have been released. What would you like to watch? I'll find it for you."
Jiang Nan Fang lay with her eyes closed, ignoring his words.
The doctor was used to it. He found a news channel on his own, turned it on, placed the remote beside her, and left.
The host's voice, calm and unhurried, reached her ears.
After listening for a few minutes, Jiang Nan Fang felt annoyed. Just as she was about to reach out to turn off the projector, a familiar name suddenly reached her ears.
"The Eighth China Electrical Engineering Technology Exhibition will open tomorrow in Nancheng."
"It is reported that over a hundred domestic electrical companies of various sizes will exhibit new products."
"As a leader in the domestic electrical industry, Nancheng Gerui Electric will present a big surprise at the exhibition."
"To provide a more intuitive understanding of this electrical exhibition, our station's reporter specially interviewed Mr. Zhan Bei Jue, President of Gerui Electric and a renowned young entrepreneur in Nancheng."
"Mr. Zhan, who just experienced a car accident two months ago, is accepting media interviews for the first time since returning to work."
"Now, let's follow the reporter's lens to hear what Mr. Zhan has to say."
Jiang Nan Fang felt as if she had been injected with a shot of adrenaline. The listlessness vanished. Upon hearing Zhan Bei Jue's name.
With a "whoosh," she propped herself up on her arms and sat up.
Then, she clearly saw Zhan Bei Jue's face appear on the projection screen.
He was dressed as usual, in a crisp black shirt and black suit, exuding an air of noble elegance.
His hair was meticulously combed. His face was clean, his expression stern.
He sat in a spacious office, looking professional and capable.
The camera focused solely on him, the high-definition lens presenting his features perfectly and three-dimensionally.
He looked straight ahead, answering the reporter's questions in a voice Jiang Nan Fang knew all too well.
He spoke so fluently, so professionally, so single-mindedly.
It was as if he had never been in a car accident, never lost a child, never grieved.
Seeing him completely unaffected, and even thriving in his career, a surge of heat rushed from Jiang Nan Fang's fingers and toes straight to her forehead.
She felt her hair stand on end.
She was so shocked, so angry, so unwilling!
In the first few days after falling ill, Jiang Nan Fang had struggled to find Zhan Bei Jue.
But Ke Teng had constantly told her that he was severely injured, undergoing rescue, and his life was uncertain, and no one could approach him.
But today, seeing him like this.
Jiang Nan Fang felt deceived.
He was perfectly fine.
After driving her child into the river and drowning him alive, this guy was still living well!
Why?
Why did the child have to die so young due to his negligence?
Why wasn't he the one who died that day?
Why could he still live so brilliantly after the child was gone?
Zhan Bei Jue was not human. He had no heart!
He had never loved the child, and the child's life or death was of no importance to him!
He was a devil, a devil who liked to snatch things from Jiang Nan Fang!
Jiang Nan Fang could no longer lie there.
She couldn't lie down for another second.
Her enemy was alive and well in Nancheng, while she was here courting death day after day. How could that be?
She wanted to go back, return to Nancheng, find Zhan Bei Jue, and ask him clearly what happened that day!
She wanted to kill this sub-human, kill the sub-human Zhou Wan Jun, kill everyone who had ever displeased her!
She wanted all these sub-humans to be buried with her poor child!
She decided to leave, and she did.
Pulling out the needle, Jiang Nan Fang flipped out of bed, found a new set of clothes and shoes Ke Teng had bought for her, put them on, grabbed her phone and card, and quickly left.
Four hours later, the plane landed at Nancheng Airport.
Jiang Nan Fang hailed a taxi at the airport entrance and headed straight for the Mercedes-Benz 4S store.
She spent an hour buying a new car, put on sunglasses, and then drove to the kindergarten where Rui Rui and Ge Er used to attend.
Forgive her for being an unqualified mother.
After Tian Tian and Jing Yu were gone, she was overcome with grief and lost interest in Rui Rui and Ge Er.
But now she was better.
She remembered that besides those two unfortunate children, there were two other unfortunate children in the world.
She wanted to see them. Even though she was an unqualified mother and didn't know what she could bring them now, she still wanted to see them.
However, the result was very disappointing.
When she arrived at the kindergarten entrance and inquired with the doorman, Rui Rui and Ge Er had not reported there at all this autumn.
To prevent Zhan Bei Jue from deliberately arranging to obstruct her from seeing Rui Rui and Ge Er, Jiang Nan Fang immediately turned around and bought a laptop from the street.
She logged into the kindergarten's backend to check the children's names.
After scanning the list, she didn't find them.
Unwilling to give up, she directly hacked into the education system and screened Rui Rui and Ge Er's names in kindergartens one by one.
After a series of operations, she checked all over three hundred kindergartens in Nancheng.
She didn't see Rui Rui and Ge Er.