“This person is the ‘mother’ in my mind, she looks exactly the same,” Jin Xiao continued. “My memory of her is very clear, she looks exactly like this and has the same name.”

"you..."

As if knowing what his sister wanted to say, Jin Xiao continued, "I remember she's very famous. Sure enough, look, I just said her name into the microphone and her picture popped up."

"It sounds so true..."

As Jin Fei spoke, she pressed the earphone-shaped button, and the mechanical female voice began reading Pei Wu's information.

The robotic female voice spoke without any emotion, yet the two children listened intently, clearly catching the word 'Bei Shang'.

"Pei Wu of Bei Shang Group."

Jin Xiao murmured to himself, his gaze fixed on Pei Wu's photo. His youthful face still had the baby fat typical of his age, and his dark eyes sparkled as if he were thinking about something.

*

Although it was only a short time, Pei Wu had already experienced being a mother in the game, and perhaps for that reason, she went home for the first time today.

Pei Wu's parents live in the city center.

They were very busy with work when they were young, but now that they are older and retired, they have more free time.

Even when Pei Wu is very busy with work, she will still take one day a week to go home and visit her family.

Pei Wu's slow reaction to romantic feelings is partly due to her parents; she can be considered a perfect 'creation' of the combination of both parents' excellent genes. Her parents' marriage was the best choice after both families weighed the pros and cons. As for love... at least initially, there was none. In Pei Wu's eyes, her parents always maintained a respectful but relatively mild relationship, with their conversations mostly revolving around data and professional knowledge.

Her home lacked any of the warmth and liveliness of a normal family, which shaped Pei Wu's current personality.

"mom."

As soon as Pei Wu finished speaking, the woman who was watering the plants in the courtyard turned around.

"I'm back."

"Um."

Pei Wu's parents lived on the first floor, with a fairly large yard where they planted many different kinds of plants.

Pei Wu's parents, who lacked her presence during her childhood, didn't really know how to get along with her. Their disharmonious relationship seemed to have started during Pei Wu's adolescence... and continues to this day. But the return of their daughter still brought a smile to Pei's mother's face.

Upon her return, Pei Wu paid special attention to her mother's appearance.

Where is my dad?

“You said you were coming back and that you were going to buy some groceries. I was going to go with you, but your dad was worried you wouldn’t remember your keys, so he asked me to leave the door open for you at home.”

Pei Wu nodded.

"I'll take these inside first."

"good."

Pei Wu carried the things into the house.

The furnishings inside the house have remained unchanged for many years, and are still pretty much the same as Pei Wu remembers.

The black piano in the living room also bears the marks of time. In Pei Wu's few childhood memories of spending time with her mother, it was her mother sitting in front of the piano teaching her to play.

Pei Wu looks more like her mother. Her mother was a rare beauty in her youth, with striking and beautiful features and a head of thick hair like seaweed. When teaching Pei Wu to play the piano, she also had a faint smile on her face. Under the sunlight shining through the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, she looked very gentle, but she didn't talk much.

This is also one of Pei Wu's few childhood memories of her mother.