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Lu Zhiming cried and made a fuss about wanting to find Wei Jia.

I kept my promise and had the bodyguards at home keep an eye on him.

But no one watched over me.

I couldn't do something that would make the bodyguards watch me to prevent me from looking for Wei Jia.

I could only keep myself in check.

Even though I often needed to drink myself into a stupor.

It had to be a stupor, the kind that leaves me unconscious.

Otherwise, as long as I had the slightest energy, I would instinctively go looking for her.

Wei Jia was right; there's no one you can't live without.

Even if I was living like a walking corpse.

Lu Zhiming grew up to be seventeen.

I couldn't keep an eye on him anymore.

He secretly ran away after school.

A half-grown kid who hadn't cried since he was ten.

Crying as he ran back after sneaking out.

"Mom really doesn't want us anymore, boohoo."

"She... she's married someone else, she has a new family..."