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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

boy extended a hand toward

hand.

the end. Because they were so young, they were rescued by the police

family.

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him in confusion, “Didn’t you say

home?”

beside them chuckled. “Little girl, you aren’t

had tears in her eyes. “But I don’t want to

“Is it because you’ll be beaten when you go

all, children of their age often made a big fuss at home, and getting spanked was just

her seriously and said, “Wait for me. When we grow up, I’ll come and

woke up

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

about others. but she

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when she was four.

a nickname, Eleven, because she was the eleventh child who was

trafficked there.

taste

sunlight pouring into the dark

the dust dancing in the light.

when she was

this year, she turned 22, yet, that boy

smile emerged on Keira’s face.

that she was really fond of

his existence was the pillar that supported her through countless episodes of abuse

other children, their light was

Ultraman was that

He must have long forgotten about

blinked and finally realized the strange

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in the

head and saw Lewis sitting next to her,

Keira could react, Matthew’s voice came from

side. “Irrelevant people should leave now. I

up the stethoscope and came to the bedside, looking at Lewis.

“I’m not an irrelevant

patient and the doctor, everyone else is irrelevant. Moreover, I have to examine

“It’s appropriate for

lifted

is

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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Tom, who was waiting outside,

shut the door,

Tom was perplexed.

his throat and said, “Boss, Miss Olsen’s

is a

he handed over his

saw the top trends showing a

Hill’s son, Connor Hill, who was wearing his school uniform, his face

discomfort and

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

seemed somewhat not used to face

so he faltered. “My cousin…she didn’t do it intentionally. It was

father was a gambler. Didn’t

a moment. “Sometimes

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nothing much to do about it. You can’t

you are born to, but I would lik

one thing

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