Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

Chapter 386

On their way to another traditional medicine practitioner's house. Sebastian chatted with Winnie.

Their topic was none other than the traditional medicine practitioner who had retired.

Sebastian said to Winnie, “I need to tell you this first. The place my friend lives is a little remote, and I'm afraid we might not be able to get there by car. We'll have to leave the car and walk there, and the path there won't be an easy one.”

Winnie nodded in understanding. “It's fine. I can have the bodyguard support me. It's an old residential area, is it?”

“Yes, it's an old residential area.” Sebastian sighed. “It won't be a stretch to call it a slum. Honestly, the residential area is in a nice location, and you could even call it the city center back then. But Avenport developed too quickly, and the center of the economy shifted. So, soon, the place she stayed downgraded. They couldn't remove the houses nor could they renovate them, so the buildings slowly became dilapidated.”

“Yes,” Winnie started wistfully. “Although I'm just a young woman, I've seen the immense growth in the country's development for the past decade. This is something no country in the world can compare to. It's good, but there will always be a group of people who will be negatively affected by it.”

“Indeed, but my friend doesn't have any financial troubles. She has properties in other places too.”

“Then why didn't she leave?” Winnie asked. “She can just rent the house she's living in. As far as I know, the rental in old residential areas isn't high. and most house owners can rent their places out.”

“That's right,” Sebastian agreed. “The environment is bad, but like me, she has a reason to stay in that old house. She, too, is waiting for someone. She's afraid that the one she's waiting for won't be able to find her if she moves away. That's why she's stubbornly staying there even though her children have been trying to convince her to leave.”

So that's why. Winnie could not help but ask, “Who is she waiting for?”

“The one she loves,” Sebastian replied before sighing. “The one she loves works as a site investigator. He went outstation many a decade ago. and he never came back. The site investigating team said that he was washed away by a torrent, but they haven't been able to find his body all these years. It's the same as my grandson, so she has been waiting for him. But the wait has been for thirty years. How many thirty years can a person have?”

“You're right. How many thirty years can a person have?” Tears sprang to Winnie's eyes. She did not even know whether or not she could live past her first thirty years.

night before, she learned that he had asked his classmates about that certain classmate of his

had been a topic being researched. Alas,

not a good sign

small flame of hope existed, she would hold on

continued chatting about other topics

said, the residential area was not accessible by car. They had to leave the

and turns, Winnie and the

for almost

medicine practitioner could

similar ideas with Sebastian, so Sebastian was a little

that, Sebastian led Winnie back the

their way back, Winnie overheard

like a fight between a

week, you tell me I have to give you three more days. How many weeks has it been since then? Have you given me any money? I'm an ordinary citizen, too! I need to earn a living! I'm not running a charity organization

Please just give me a few more days to recuperate from this cold before I move out. If you kick me out now, I'll have to wander

turning white? If I have pity for you, who will do the same for me? My mother's in the hospital, waiting for me to pay

the landlord spoke, sounds of tilings getting

that the landlord was throwing out the tenant's

out what was going on.

them. “Let's wait until

side of the path for a

when silence returned to the corridor did Sebastian tell Winnie

a few steps forward,