White Wolf Street, Sunshine Welfare Institute.
In the evening, warm sunlight fell on Zhou Lijuan as she sat in a wicker chair, altering several pieces of clothing.
In the small courtyard ahead, several children were playing and fooling around.
As she watched them, a smile unknowingly appeared at the corners of Zhou Lijuan's mouth.
In a daze, she seemed to see her own son.
Her husband had died young, and she had raised her son all by herself.
From his first tottering steps to his rebellious adolescence, and then to his becoming a top mecha pilot in the Strategic Affairs Department, fighting on the front lines of the battlefield.
Looking back on it all now, it seemed almost like a dream.
Zhou Lijuan had never imagined that her son would one day pilot a mecha to face the giant beasts.
She had never thought that Luo Yan would become a soldier.
After all, when Luo Yan was young, his family's poor financial situation had left him malnourished, frail, and frequently ill.
Zhou Lijuan still remembered how, when he was five, his high fever refused to go down. At one point, she had even thought she was going to lose the child.
Fortunately, everything eventually passed, and Luo Yan had been sensible from a young age. His grades had been decent too, so she had not needed to worry about him too much.
Just when Zhou Lijuan thought that she and her son's lives would continue peacefully like that, the Giant Beast Calamity descended, and that disaster separated her and Luo Yan.
During the days when she had no news of her son, Zhou Lijuan told herself more than once that Luo Yan had to still be alive.
That was how she managed to hold on until she reunited with her