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!”

too long after, leaving her to fend

not help her tears when she recalled her past, her tears

wrong?” Helene

and quickly apologized, “Sorry, Princess

the clothing as

“Why are you crying?”

a smile and shook her

“Are you… hungry?”

“No.”

wrong? Tell

seemed decent to be a listener. She could not understand it anyway and would

Aurelia bit her lips and said softly, “I suddenly thought of my

her head to look

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 when they went out, and the basement caught fire

father was cheap, and the door lock was of bad quality. I could open the

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