Empress Dowager Song had learned that her son was now worth over a hundred million. However, she refused his offer to buy her a new house, having no desire to move to the city center. Ye Ge assumed his mother felt lonely and believed moving downtown would only lead to boredom. Consequently, he tried to persuade her to move to Hangzhou, suggesting he buy a property near Yuhang University. That way, if she ever felt bored, she could easily stroll around the campus.
But his mother was even less interested in that idea. She explained that she had lived in Linhai City for most of her life and had no intention of moving elsewhere. No matter how Ye Ge pleaded, it was to no avail. Empress Dowager Song insisted that she truly did not want to move. "There's no need to move," she said. "I’ve lived here my whole life. Why would I move? Even if you children are gone, I still have my neighbors to play mahjong with."
Ye Ge realized she had a point. If he moved his mother to the city center, she would be in a strange environment where she knew no one, which would likely cause her more distress. And as for Hangzhou, even with him there, it would still feel like a foreign land to her, making her even less inclined to go. Ye Ge figured that only when he settled down, got married, and had children would his mother be willing to come over to help raise them. But for now, marriage was out of the question for him. From his mother's perspective, whether it was the city center or near West Lake in …
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