Aurelia’s hand that was holding the needle and thread paused.

Helene snuggled the pillow with her face intimately, swaying it gently and humming a lullaby as if she was really lulling a baby to sleep.

“My baby is a girl…” she talked to herself, then smiled at Aurelia. “A very pretty girl!”

Aurelia felt a pinch in her nose.

Before she came to Southeast Aciatic, she did not know that girls could be pampered so much. She thought of her parents when in fact, her impression of the two of them was already blurry.

Before she was ten years old, the family of three had crammed in the dark, dirty, and damp basement. Even if a single penny was left at home, her father would take it for alcohol and drugs. Their source of income had been her mother’s prostitution.

Aurelia remembered that her mother would dress scantily and stand by the streets even when it was in the middle of the winter, making sexy giggles that made one’s hair stand on end.

The two of them did not really care about her. They would toss her some food each day, as simple as if they were feeding a cat or a dog.

What they would say the most was—”What’s the point of raising a girl? Money wasting!”

a “liability” like her not too long after, leaving her to fend

when she recalled her past, her tears falling

Helene looked

and quickly apologized, “Sorry, Princess Lene… I dirtied the

the clothing as her gaze stayed on

“Why are you crying?”

a smile and shook

“Are you… hungry?”

“No.”

what’s wrong?

The woman was not lucid, but she seemed decent to be a listener. She could not understand it anyway and would not spread the word. Aurelia was also pent up

said softly, “I

head to look at her

my parents weren’t home one day when I was seven. One went to get drugs, and the other went to the motel. They locked me in the room

was of bad quality. I

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