It Was All a Misunderstanding on My Part! Thanks to the Alliance Leaders Xiu Xin and Ying Huo!

"Earlier, I heard Penny say that there had been some conflict between you and your husband?"

He looked at the young maid. "I don't mean to pry into your private affairs, so you don't need to feel pressured. If there's anything I can help you with, you can tell me."

There were two reasons the young maid had fallen. The first was that she wanted to stay in the big city.

The cost of living in the Bu Peien Area was very high. Unlike other cities, it had no "buffer zone." Here, you were either in heaven or in hell—there was no middle ground! In other cities, there was an obvious transition from the Commercial Center to the outskirts.

The cost of goods and living expenses gradually decreased the farther one lived from the city center.

But Bu Peien was different. As long as one lived inside the ring road, the cost of living was not much different from that in the city center.

The only place with a significant difference in overall consumption levels was the Slums, outside the ring road.

It was not a good place. The poor of Bu Peien gathered in several Slums outside the ring road.

They were called Slums, but they were definitely not shantytowns. There were high-rise buildings and apartments there as well, but everyone living there was poor!

There was hardly any law and order there. It was said that the Police Chief of the Bu Peien Area had agreed to let the precincts below reduce their patrols outside the ring road, thereby lowering the chances of officers being injured or attacked.

The area was filled with gang members and Criminal Organizations, and they had developed their own ecosystem.

The gang members and people from the underworld did not want the Federal