After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1452

Chapter 1452: Zinnia’s Tears

Zinnia paused and looked at her daughter. There...was indeed a way. She had long lost hope for herself, but her children were still so young. Her brother was kind; he’d take them in and raise them as his own!

"Did you... meet them?" she asked, referring to meeting her maternal family.

Zinnia was sent to Hassen because of her stepmother’s greed. She was not allowed to make contact outside and had been trapped inside the large palace that had always felt suffocating to her.

It wasn’t that her husband found the Golds to be a threat. Even if he did acknowledge that they were powerful in their own right, what could they have against him, a city lord in a city with a deep legacy?

That man simply liked everything to be under his complete control. Seeing her want to be with her family so much—oh, how much she had begged him to let her visit her family when she was younger—made him want to prevent it from happening even more.

When she was a young woman, after being on the verge of insanity, she decided to make an escape. She wanted to go home! However, she was caught and punished.

And then she got pregnant.

When her daughter was born, she became his pawn to completely kill Zinnia’s will to defy him.

Who would use his own daughter to threaten his own wife? Evos could.

In any case, Zinnia had never seen her family since the decades she was here... and she didn’t even have news about them at all. Oh, how she missed her brother!

The question made Margaery flinch and grip her skirt with her free hand. She had been dreading this question.

In the end, she took a deep breath and held her mother’s hand tighter.

"I did meet them..." she began, already feeling pained by the memory. Before she could say more though, the door burst open, revealing her 17-year-old brother. "Sister!!"

He was like a younger and male version of Margaery. And as every Gold was, he also inherited the Gold’s characteristic hair.

His name was Marcus. He had rushed over when he heard she was here. He was outside the territory when she arrived and it wasn’t like he had people reporting to him about what was going on in the City.

He simply overheard people saying his half-brother was married (his father apparently forgot about inviting him) and that he was married to someone from Bleulle. He knew his sister wouldn’t miss coming to visit Hassen, so he rushed home the moment he heard the news.

That said, he was in such a rush that he forgot to change clothing. He now looked like a mess, covered with bruises and wounds. "What happened to you?"

"I was training..."

"Not bullied?"

"No, not lately, no," Marcus said as he sat down next to them. He was very honest. He thought at first that his training was finally seeing an effect, so those people didn’t bother him anymore. But, in retrospect, it was probably because everyone was too busy with the wedding to look at him.

When they get bored again, maybe they’d hunt him down again to beat him up. He needed to grow more before that happened!

When he lost his sister, he...

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but stare at his pitiful sister. "Sister... if I had been stronger..."

If he had been stronger, would he have been able to fight those bastards trying to sell and buy her? Would he have had the influence to find her a better husband who’d actually treat her well?

Margaery patted his shoulder and smiled. "It’s good you want to be stronger, but don’t think of defying that man..."

"But..."

"I don’t want to lose my brother," she said. "At the very least, you are a son. If you showed enough growth, you will get resources. Your path is not hopeless."

Not like them, the women.

Marcus pursed his lips and looked down, his eyes a bit teary.

This made the woman smile gently at him, with Margaery even poking his cheek in teasing. "Still a crybaby."

The young lad glared at her. "It’s not my fault..."

He was too soft, and it was the primary reason why he got bullied by the other nobles and why his father, Evos, ignored him.

Zinnia watched her children’s closeness and felt nostalgic. A long time ago, she was also very close to her sibling and it was a time she felt... protected and seen.

"He even had five children, four sons and a daughter! I’m surprised people could have so many!"

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