Mr. Bo, Madam Is Pregnant! by White Moon Lake

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: Encounter

After hearing Dean Li’s words, Su Lu was silent for a long time.

So long that Dean Li couldn’t help but ask, "Su Lu, are you okay?"

Su Lu took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "I’ve never asked because... I can’t remember. I can’t remember what happened before I came to the orphanage, and I don’t remember why I can’t remember."

It was a bit of a mouthful to say, but that was indeed the case.

Su Lu couldn’t remember why she couldn’t remember, but her memory before arriving at Sunshine Orphanage was a blank slate.

The only memory she had was that Xiao Yi was her younger brother. Moreover, perhaps even this memory was only retained thanks to the occasional reminders from the deans and nursery staff at the orphanage.

"But, there should be records for admission, right?" Su Lu asked. "Dean, you should know how I ended up here."

"Ah," Dean Li sighed softly, "Yes, I know. However, I’ve always felt that it might be better not to know, and this was also the advice given by the psychologist at the time. So, if you hadn’t asked, I indeed had no plans to bring it up voluntarily."

"Now... can you tell me?" Su Lu asked.

Dean Li was silent for a few seconds before finally speaking softly and smoothly, "After the police rescued you, they brought you to our orphanage."

"Rescued? From... where?" Su Lu, for so many years, was finally trying to touch the truth of her origins.

Before this, she had wondered why she ended up in the orphanage; she always thought that she and Xiao Yi were simply abandoned.

Although it didn’t make sense however she thought about it—both she and Xiao Yi were healthy, with keen ears and sharp eyes.

Moreover, it could be understood if she, being a girl, was abandoned, but Xiao Yi was a boy. Even with a preference for boys over girls, it shouldn’t extend to abandoning a boy too.

she never thought deeply about it, casually finding an excuse that could pass in her own heart

was already difficult; there was no need to

her birth family, her life might be even more difficult, considering her biological parents

did not become any easier, it seemed her heart

moment, she was somewhat nervous, delving into her origins for

were rescued by the police from a trafficking ring of an extremely vile

Lu muttered stunned, "A... trafficking

She had always thought...

always thought I was abandoned, so although I don’t remember, I also didn’t want to revisit the details,

had been held there for some time according to what you were like when you first came to the orphanage, suffering

you must have been there for a while, and you likely experienced or witnessed significant abuse..." Dean Li paused for a moment before continuing, "The police said that at the location where you were held, the children there

Lu’s voice was a

not so common now, but in earlier years, children were often maimed

shivered, "Then...

we speculate... you might have witnessed more than once

in Dean Li’s words, it probably meant how

to have witnessed this process more than

hearing Dean Li’s words, her mind, subconscious, and common sense, were

it seemed like she

such scenes, her heart was calm, as if... some kind of protective mechanism blurred it

edgy, and

this protective mechanism was awakened only after being hurt by Bo Jingshen, a type of self-protective

what Dean Li said, this self-protection might have existed a long time

anyone come looking for me?"