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Shen Nian stood below the apartment building on Maple Leaf Avenue, looking up at the construction crew repairing the exterior wall, her face full of helplessness.
She was wearing a professional suit today: a light gray blazer with a narrow skirt, her pretty shoulder-length short hair combed meticulously into place, thin-rimmed round glasses perched on her elegant nose, and beneath the narrow skirt, her long, straight, beautiful legs were wrapped in a thin layer of black stockings. All in all, she looked gentle, charming, and, in short, respectable.
But at this moment, this respectable mature beauty's back carried an indescribable desolation.
Just yesterday.
After she had finished that heart-stopping mission over at Prison Rock, exhausted all over yet full of joy at the thought that she could finally return to her warm little nest, take a nice hot bath, and sleep properly...
She walked downstairs and looked up.
—Her home was gone.
After moving to Chen Capital, the cozy apartment she had kept neat and tidy had had one side of its exterior wall blasted open by a terrifying force, leaving behind an enormous hole as the cold wind howled and poured inside.
Obviously, it was no longer livable.
At that moment, Shen Nian's mentality collapsed.
And when she learned that the culprit who had blown open her home's exterior wall was her benefactor, Lu Xiu...
Shen Nian's feelings became even more complicated.
She did not even know who she was supposed to go to for justice—
Shen Nian stayed in a hotel for a day yesterday.
But she was extremely unused to it.
The hotel was clean, yes.
But that unfamiliar, standardized space with no trace of anything personal was, to her, even harder to stay in than a dirty and messy environment.
Because that kind of environment