No man could stand this, not even if she were the person he loved most! The little maid had no days off. From Monday to Friday, she stayed overnight at Lin Qi's villa, while on Saturday and Sunday nights, she returned home.
The job was difficult in every respect.
Last Saturday, after the little maid returned home and visited her son, she had not even had time to relax before the plumber grabbed her arm and dragged her into the kitchen!
"You're hurting me!" She struggled free and pulled her wrist back, staring at the plumber with an expression caught between anger and fear.
Both she and the plumber came from a very remote little city. They called it a "county," while people in the city called it a "town."
After she arrived in Bu Peien, whenever most people heard where she was from, they would laugh and say, "The scenery there is pretty nice, right? It's all farmland, isn't it?"
Yes, in the eyes of Bu Peien's people, the place where she lived was no different from the countryside! That was also why she fought so desperately to stay here. She did not want to return to that place, one so obscure that many people had never even heard of it, and muddle through the rest of her life.
Once she had seen Bu Peien's sky lit up by neon lights, she never wanted to look up at the stars in the dead of night again.
The plumber had grown up with her and accompanied her through the important stages of her life. He had been her partner.
They had only separated after she came to this city.
Her impression of him had always remained that of a somewhat shy man who blushed whenever he spoke and humbly begged