When children are present, no matter how poor or difficult life may be, home can be found anywhere.
Once the children are gone, what is the point of living in even the most luxurious 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 replied, "Zhan Bei Jue is in the intensive care unit. Even if you find him, what good will it do?"
"Listen to me, Nan Fang. Rest well first, and get some sleep. When you wake up, perhaps he will have woken up too."
Reason told Jiang Nan Fang not to sleep, but her physiological exhaustion had reached its limit, and her body was urging her to rest for self-preservation.
She fell asleep again within a minute of getting into the car, in a state of semiconsciousness.
She slept for over a month.
During that month, Jiang Nan Fang neither ate nor drank, spoke, or saw anyone, surviving solely on nutrient drips that kept a sliver of her spirit alive.
She spent most of her time in a deep sleep. Occasionally, when she woke, she would only struggle to recall her old phone's ID and password, trying to recover photos of her children.
Eventually, she remembered. Her only pastime upon waking became silently scrolling through her children's photos while weeping.
Seeing her lifeless, half-dead state day after day, Ke Teng was deeply worried.
Fearing she would sink into depression if this continued, he tried numerous ways to help her.
For example, he took her out for a change of scenery, to watch movies, and to admire beautiful landscapes.
But Jiang Nan Fang seemed soulless; nothing could lift her spirits, no matter what she saw.
Time flew by, and two months later, on the eighteenth day of the eleventh lunar month, a turning point finally arrived.
On that day, Jiang Nan Fang was lying in bed as usual, receiving an intravenous drip from the doctor.
After two months of continuous injections, her hands were almost entirely covered in bruises and scars.
Once the injection was finished, the doctor turned on the projector Ke Teng had prepared for her.
"Watch the news if you have nothing to do. Dramas are fine too. Many major international events have happened recently, and there are many good TV shows. 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 accustomed to her state and found a news channel on his own, turned it on, placed the remote control beside her, and left.
The host's voice, calm and unhurried, reached her ears.
After a few minutes, Jiang Nan Fang felt agitated. Just as she was about to reach out to turn off the projector, a familiar name suddenly reached her.
"The eighth China Electrical Engineering Technology Exhibition will open in Nancheng tomorrow."
"It is reported that over a hundred domestic electrical companies of various sizes will showcase new products at the exhibition."
"As a leader in China's electrical industry, Nancheng Gerei Electric will present a major surprise at the exhibition."
"To provide a more intuitive understanding of this electrical exhibition, our reporter specially interviewed Mr. Zhan Bei Jue, President of Gerei Electric and a renowned young entrepreneur in Nancheng."
"Mr. Zhan, who just experienced a car accident two months ago, is giving his first media interview since returning to work."
"Now, let's follow the reporter's lens to hear what Mr. Zhan has to say."
As if injected with a shot of adrenaline, Jiang Nan Fang no longer felt weak. Hearing Zhan Bei Jue's name,
She propped herself up on her arms and sat up.
Then, she clearly saw Zhan Bei Jue's features on the projection screen.
He was as usual, wearing a crisp black shirt, a black suit, exuding an air of noble refinement.
His hair was impeccably styled. His face was clean, and his expression was stern.
He sat in a spacious office, looking professional and capable.
The camera focused solely on him. The high-definition lens perfectly captured his three-dimensional features.
He looked ahead, answering the reporter's questions in a voice that Jiang Nan Fang knew all too well.
He spoke so fluently, so professionally, so intently.
It was as if he had never been in a car accident, never lost a child, never experienced any sorrow.
Seeing him unaffected, with his career even flourishing, a surge of heat rushed from Jiang Nan Fang's fingers and toes to her forehead.
She felt as though her hair was standing on end.
She was shocked, enraged, and unwilling to accept it!
In the first few days after falling ill, Jiang Nan Fang had desperately wanted to find Zhan Bei Jue.
But Ke Teng had repeatedly told her that he was critically injured, undergoing surgery, and his life was uncertain, and no one could get close to him.
But today, seeing him like this.
Jiang Nan Fang felt as though she had been deceived.
He was perfectly fine.
After driving her child into the river and drowning him, this man was living well on his own!
Why?
Why did the child have to die so young due to his mistake?
Why wasn't he the one who died that day?
Why was he living so splendidly 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 demon, a demon who liked to snatch things from her, Jiang Nan Fang!
Jiang Nan Fang could no longer bear to lie down.
She couldn't lie there for another second.
Her enemy was living prosperously in Nancheng, while she was here contemplating her own death day after day. Why?
She wanted to go back, return to Nancheng, find Zhan Bei Jue, and demand a clear explanation of what happened that day!
She wanted to kill this sub-human, kill Zhou Wan Jun, who was worse than any animal, kill everyone who had ever made her unhappy!
She wanted all these sub-humans to accompany her poor child to the grave!
No sooner said than done. She stopped the drip.
Jiang Nan Fang pulled out the needle, flipped off the bed, found a new set of clothes and shoes that Ke Teng had bought for her, changed, grabbed her phone and bank 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 dealership.
After an hour spent buying a new car, she put on her sunglasses and drove towards 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, her grief was so overwhelming that she didn't have the energy to inquire about 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 offer them now, she still wanted to see them.
However, the result was disappointing.
Upon arriving at the kindergarten and inquiring with the gatekeeper, she learned that Rui Rui and Ge'er had not enrolled there at all in the fall of this year.
To prevent Zhan Bei Jue from deliberately arranging obstacles to her seeing Rui Rui and Ge'er, Jiang Nan Fang immediately turned around and bought a laptop from a street vendor.
She logged into the kindergarten's backend system to check the children's names.
After scanning through, she didn't find them.
Unwilling to give up, she directly hacked into the education system, screening Rui Rui and Ge'er's names in kindergartens one by one.
After all her efforts, she had searched through over three hundred kindergartens in Nancheng.
She still couldn't find Rui Rui and Ge'er.