Sasha was speechless.

She dried the tears on her cheeks and turned to look at the person who had sat down next to her.She was surprised to replace that he was just a young boy.

His clothes were shabby and well-worn, and a guitar was strapped across his back.

"What's with that look? Is a wandering singer like me unworthy of sitting next to you?

“Huh?” Sasha immediately shook her head. “No, no! You just reminded me of my younger brother,that's all.”

Her “brother”; the one who had impersonated as Lance on Wall Street.

Sasha felt like crying again at that thought.

The boy saw her expression change and quickly started strumming on his guitar. “Shall I play you asong? Maybe you'll feel better after some tunes...”

"Will I really?”

“Of course! Just listen and see!”

Then, the boy, who Sasha noticed was rather handsome, began to play a melody.

“Now that I am a man,

I can only keep running,

No matter how scared I am,

Running through the darkness,

Hello, tomorrow,

Smile through your tears,

Tomorrow will be a better day...”

The boy's voice echoed through the subway, sounding strangely familiar. Sasha just listened as hesang. She suddenly understood that she had been such a fool.

She had failed to understand such a simple philosophy. After having lived through so many ups anddowns in all the years of my life, how could I let man and a divorce crush me like this? I don'tbelong to him; he’s not my master! Why does he always have the final say in everything? Back then,we got together because he wanted to get together, and now, we're getting divorced because hewanted a divorce. I won't let him do this to me anymore!

Sasha suddenly felt enlightened. Her entire being came alive again

The boy finished his song and smiled when he saw the change in her expression. “Do you feel betternow, miss?”

Sasha nodded fervently. “Yes, I do! Thank you! Well, Ill be going now. Thank you again!”

Then, she stood up, pulled out a wad of bills from her pocket and gratefully pressed them into theboy's hands.

Sasha did not even count exactly how much she had given to him. She had to hurry back home. Shewanted to get her children, pack up, and move as soon as possible. No had cleaned Royal CourtOne in a long time. She had been too busy to attend to that.

After Sasha had reached home, she had brought her three children together with her to FrontierBay.

Sabrina had seen her leaving with bags of their belongings. She had protested and said she wasinsane for moving when Christmas was just around the corner.

Sasha had ignored Sabrina’s words and instead, had brought her along with them.

"Come on, let's go! Let's celebrate Christmas there together. Besides, you've never been there, right?We'll clean up the place together and you can pick out a room. We'll spend Christmas there thisyear.”

“Really?” Sabrina had asked in disbelief.

Nonetheless, she had scooped up Vivian, who was lagging behind, and both of them had gotteninto Sasha's car together.

This sneaky woman! Sasha smiled and shook her head to herself.

The two women and the three children spent the entire afternoon cleaning up the villa in FrontierBay. They were finally done as the sun started setting.

“Mommy, I'm hungry. When are we having dinner?”

"Aww, you're hungry? Okay, Mommy will get you some food right away. Wait a while, okay?”Sasha immediately went into the kitchen, pulled out the groceries that she brought with her earlier,and began to prepare dinner.

After dinner was ready, right around the time when Sebastian would usually be coming home, shedeliberately asked the children to turn off the lights.

"Sweeties, shall we give Daddy a surprise? Let's turn off all the lights now. We'll only turn it on whenhe comes in, okay?”

"Okay!" The three children happily agreed to Sasha's plan to surprise their father.

Sabrina, who was next to her, commented in a low voice, “Such innocence!”

Sasha paid her no mind and turned off all the lights.

The villa was plunged into darkness. From the outside, no one could have guessed that there werepeople inside.

Later, as Sebastian was on his way home, he was driving down the street when he caught sight ofthe lifeless villa from afar. In his mind, he thought of another small courtyard, all lit up with orangelight.

All the energy drained out of him. He stopped his car in the middle of the street and stared at thedark villa.

It felt depressing to be going home to an empty and deserted home.

After a few seconds, he sighed and guided his car into the driveway.

Ding!

Just as he was about to step through the front door after parking his car, the villa was suddenly litup brightly.

“Daddy is home!”

“Daddy, you're finally back! We tried to surprise you? Were you surprised?”

It was like magic. The villa which he had thought to be empty was suddenly bright with light andlife, and his three children were running on their little feet towards him.

The jumped onto him as soon as he walked in.

Sebastian was surprised indeed. He gazed down at his children hugging his legs for a long while. Hismind was still in a daze.

His children were like a dream made reality. They were just too good to be true.

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