Shi Xuanyi's family was very, very poor.
Her mother, Xu Qinyu, was a country girl who had come to the big city of Magic City to earn money and become a factory worker.
At work, she had met a rather handsome coworker, and the two had fallen in love and married.
Although they were both poor, they were well matched in terms of background. One was handsome and the other beautiful, so they made a good-looking couple too.
Unfortunately, neither her luck nor her judgment was very good.
That handsome man had no sense of responsibility whatsoever. Just because he had lost all his money trading stocks and run up another two hundred thousand yuan in debt, he had chosen to abandon his wife, daughters, and debts and run away alone.
Xu Qinyu had become a single mother of two daughters, burdened with two hundred thousand yuan in debt, yet her monthly wages were only six thousand yuan. Even that was hard-earned money she could only make by working herself to the bone on overtime, with her supervisor and boss taking pity on her and giving her the chance to work those extra hours.
Other workers could not get overtime even if they wanted it and earned only three or four thousand yuan. After all, the business was not doing particularly well, and there was nothing to be done about that. A heartless boss would have simply kicked people out and laid them off.
Six thousand yuan might have seemed like a fair amount.
But the problem was, she was not living alone!
Raising children was so expensive.
Luckily, the company provided dormitory accommodations. After her husband ran away, she stopped renting and moved into the dormitory with her two daughters, saving on rent.
Although it was very cramped, the