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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

hand toward

hand.

in the end. Because they were so young, they were rescued by the police as soon as they descended the mountain. Her

family.

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and asked him in confusion, “Didn’t you say you would take me

home?”

police officer beside them chuckled. “Little girl, you aren’t his kin. You can’t go to

had tears in her eyes. “But I don’t want to go home! I want to be with him

her, “Is it because you’ll

take note of this. After all, children of their age often made a big fuss at home, and getting spanked was just a part

“Wait for me. When we grow up, I’ll come and marry you, and take you to my

up abruptly.

from her dream passed by like a fast-forwarded slideshow, leaving her momentarily confused about

know about others. but

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when she was

nickname, Eleven, because she was the eleventh

trafficked there.

the taste of chocolate.

remembered the sunlight pouring into the

the dust dancing in the light.

when she was a

she turned 22, yet, that boy still hasn’t come to marry her.

smile emerged on Keira’s

was really

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

other children, their

was that

only a kid. He

blinked and finally realized the strange

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the room.

and saw Lewis sitting next to her, asking, “Do

could react, Matthew’s voice came from

leave now. I

and came to the bedside, looking

gloomy. “I’m not

“Apart from the patient and the doctor, everyone else is irrelevant. Moreover, I have to examine the patient, which

frowned, “It’s appropriate for you

lifted her blouse. “I’m a

my eyes, there is no distinction

wanted to say something more, but when he saw the segment of her slender waist beneath her blouse, he blushed and immediately left the room.

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room, Tom, who was

doorway, shut the door, and scolded,

Tom was perplexed.

and said,

is a trending topic.”

over

trends

son, Connor Hill, who was wearing his school uniform, his

discomfort and

journalist enquired, “About your father’s murder case, what do you have to

used to

he faltered. “My cousin…she didn’t do

gambler. Didn’t you hate him too?”

moment. “Sometimes yes, but

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to do about it. You

to,

one thing

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