Vera still did not understand what Lin Qi meant by those words. She focused on preparing dinner and only realized it after a while.
"You mean... his child?"
The little boy had a child. Later, after he broke up with his first ex-girlfriend, the child was given to the girl's side.
In divorce proceedings, judges would generally try to award custody of minor children to the woman whenever possible. Therefore, aside from dividing property, fighting for custody was also one of the main points of litigation in divorce cases.
Before the Ice Age, when the social economy was doing well, the lawsuits over child custody alone each year were enough to keep most law firms running.
If the man wanted to obtain custody of the child, he had to spend money on a lawsuit—and he might not even win! At the time, Vera believed that her child was not yet capable of supporting and raising a child. At first, she had intended to bring the child back and raise him herself.
But as her work situation changed and the little boy returned to Nagaril, she eventually gave up custody of the child.
Given the social position she had occupied at the time, she had already discarded every notion associated with being a "housewife."
It was not difficult for her to give her child a better marriage and have them combine with better genes to produce a more outstanding child, so she did not care much about this matter.
But now that Lin Qi had suddenly brought it up, she could not help thinking more deeply about it.
As a member of the Upper Class, she knew very well that people were always calling on others not to overinterpret things. But once one stood at a certain height, every word spoken