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Keira shook her head, struggling.”

She didn’t want to rot there forever!

She didn’t want to live in the filthy ditch either!

So, with the little time she had, she studied hard, striving to work her way up. She was determined to change her own fate!

At the age of four, she had never been to kindergarten. She secretly observed Isla, learning a foreign language. When Isla stumbled over a word, Keira was quick to respond. She thought she would receive praise from her mother. However, she never ever expected that what was about to occur was almost a complete

disaster!

Poppy praised her and unexpectedly, gave her a piece

of cake.

The sweet and rich cream in her mouth gave her a

sense of satisfaction. She was reluctant to swallow it.

She thought her life was going to change. Poppy held her hand with a smile and took her out, only to hand

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her over to a human trafficker.

She didn’t cry or make a fuss. After all, the human traffickers at least gave her tasty candy, showed her kindness, and smiled at her.

Until they locked her in a basement with a bunch of

other children.

There, she met an older boy.

They spent a month together, having a good time…

In the beginning, the boy didn’t talk much. Later, he asked her, “Don’t you want to escape?”

She said happily, “I don’t.”

Although there was no freedom, she got enough to eat, had warm clothes, and didn’t have to see her mother. She felt that was the happiest time in her life.

The boy was puzzled and asked, “Why?”

She said, “Because no one hits me here.”

The boy pondered her words before asking, “What’s

your name?”

She shook her head.

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didn’t have a name and didn’t have a household

registration number…

All the other children would cry and make a fuss, while she smiled every day. The human trafficker was the least guarded against her. So in the end, the boy handed her a bag of sleeping drugs to put in the trafficker’s food.

She did it.

As the children were running haphazardly away, she just stood there.

The boy asked her, “Why don’t you leave?”

She shook her head. “I don’t know where to go.”

home with me.”

a hand toward her, and she

hand.

didn’t go home with him in the end. Because they were so young, they were rescued by the police as soon as they descended

family.

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the boy’s leg and asked him in confusion, “Didn’t you say you would take me

home?”

them chuckled. “Little girl, you aren’t his kin. You can’t

to go home! I want to be with him forever!”

her, “Is it because you’ll be beaten when you go home?”

police officer didn’t take note of this. After all, children of their age often made a big fuss at home, and getting spanked was just

“Wait for me. When we grow up, I’ll come

up

her dream passed by like a fast-forwarded slideshow, leaving her momentarily confused about what was real and what was a dream…

know about others. but she remembered

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that happened when

a nickname, Eleven, because she was

trafficked there.

taste

sunlight pouring into the

dancing in the

happiest time when she was

this year, she turned 22, yet, that boy still hasn’t come to marry

bitter smile emerged on Keira’s

wasn’t that she was really fond of him. A

child knew nothing about love, but his existence was the pillar that supported her through countless episodes

children, their light was

was that

He must

and finally realized the

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the room.

Lewis sitting next to her,

react, Matthew’s voice

should leave now. I

picked up the stethoscope and came to the bedside, looking at

was gloomy. “I’m not

everyone else is irrelevant. Moreover, I have to examine

for you to

Keira and lifted her

is

something more, but when he saw the segment of her slender waist beneath her blouse, he blushed and immediately

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who was waiting outside, subconsciously

immediately blocked the doorway, shut the door, and scolded, “What

Tom was perplexed.

throat and

is a

handed over his

the top trends showing a journalist conducting an interview.

was Finley Hill’s son, Connor Hill, who was

with discomfort and

“About your father’s murder case, what do you

somewhat not used to

didn’t do

father was a gambler. Didn’t

a moment. “Sometimes yes, but

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do about it. You can’t change

you are born to, but I would lik

say one

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