Chapter 1

My name is James, an only child, I am 18 years old this year, and I am in the first year of high school. I will be in the second year of high school in the second half of the year.

My father William is a real second-generation rich man. He started to take over the family business last year. His business is booming. In order to expand the overseas market and make the company bigger, he has been inspecting projects abroad in the past two years.

And my mother Emily is the deputy director of the Municipal Supervision Commission at a young age. Although she usually has a quiet and elegant temperament, once she gets angry, even the elders in the family have to keep silent.

Originally, my parents planned for me to finish high school in the No. 1 Middle School in this city, but plans cannot keep up with changes.

My mother is about to be promoted, and I have to transfer schools again.

Since I can remember, my mother has a smooth career and has been promoted all the way.

My mother, Comrade Emily, has excellent working ability, acts vigorously and decisively, has skills and courage.

When she was in her sophomore year, my rich second-generation senior dad pursued her for half a year before she agreed to date him. As a result, she got pregnant unexpectedly in her junior year. Instead of having an abortion, my mom took a year off from school and gave birth to me.

Although she had a child out of wedlock and her boyfriend was a rich second-generation, my mom did not give up her studies, but returned to school to finish her undergraduate studies.

When she graduated from her senior year, everyone thought that my mom would marry into a wealthy family and take care of her husband and children.

But she made an unexpected decision.

My mom took the postgraduate entrance examination.

Three years later, after getting her postgraduate diploma, she married my dad and formed a new family.

But after getting married, my mom did not return to her family, but took the national exam to enter the system and become a civil servant.

In her words, from kindergarten to college, she was the focus of the audience everywhere? Why should I stay at home all day and worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation and be a housewife after getting married?

Thus, comrade Emily, who entered the system with a master’s degree, still shines. She started at the deputy section level. With her vigorous and resolute style, she was appreciated and promoted by the leaders.

With the support of her family, my mother has come to where she is today, from a section clerk to a deputy department-level cadre.

Half a month ago, the provincial party committee decided to appoint my mother as the deputy mayor in charge of the economy of the neighboring Jiangzhou City.

My mother, comrade Emily, gladly accepted the order.

My mother always jokes that her son will always belong to her, and her career will always be inseparable from her, but it is not certain whether her husband can always belong to her.

It is enough to fall in love once when you are young. Since I was born, my mother seems to have realized a lot overnight, felt the responsibility of a mother, and has since devoted her energy to her career and son.

The relationship with my father, on the contrary, has gradually become dull with the passage of time.

Excellent, confident, independent, and sober.

In addition, she is beautiful and has an outstanding temperament. She is still the dream goddess of countless men today.

It is a pity that my father is not grateful for what he has. He thinks that women should stay at home to take care of their husbands and children and be a good wife to manage household affairs. After all, my father who owns the family wealth does not need a strong woman wife, but a wife who can take care of the family.

On this point, my father and mother have quarreled more than once, but the ending is always unhappy.

My grandfather is very powerful. He started from scratch and built a hotel into a large group with chain hotels across the country.

As an only child, my father is under great pressure while enjoying wealth. So after graduating from college, he joined the group and started as a manager step by step. Until last year, he took over his grandfather’s burden as the general manager of the group and became the chairman of the group.

In recent years, my father has been busy with his career and he and my mother have been working hard in their respective fields. Naturally, they have no time to take care of family affairs.

Especially in recent years, the group’s domestic market has been close to saturation. If it wants to create more wealth, it can only turn to foreign countries. In order to prove his ability to shareholders, my father, who just took over the group, personally led the team to inspect projects abroad. Although there has been some progress in the past two years, the distance between him and his wife and children in a foreign country has become much more distant.

I have basically spent more time with my mother since I was a child. Compared with my father, my mother’s work is not so busy. After all, she works in the system, working from nine to five, with two days off and holidays. Except for the lack of winter and summer vacations, her time is almost synchronized with my student. Every day when she goes to work and goes home, my mother drives me to school.

So I have been closer to my mother since I was a child.

The only thing that makes me depressed is the frequent change of schools.

In my impression, from the first grade of elementary school to now, I have changed schools five or six times.

Every time I change schools, I have to leave familiar classmates and teachers, and I will inevitably feel uncomfortable in an unfamiliar environment.