She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Chapter 125*

After pauxing for over a minute. Wesley's ho***se voice finally came from hit copped hands On New Year's Day that ye your grandparents took Zilvia to the pedestrian street to play. In front of the department store, there was a commercial square with an acrobatics performance, and the three of them gathered there to watch They hadn't been watching for long when Zalvia said she wanted a candied hawthorn skewer, so your grandpa went to buy one Wesley continued. "Before he could retom. Zilvia sw some kids nearly playing with balloons and said she wanted one too The balloon vendor was only about ten meters away, so your grandma thought it would just take a few minute and back. She told Zilvia to stay put and while e she went to get the balloon Basically, the direction of this kind of story was always predictaldr

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The sad and i

The sad and

atmosphere gradually spread.

Athena closed her eyes, her heart slowly sinking as she silently prayed, hoping it wasnt as she feared.

Wesley's voice had already choked up, filled with endless pain: When your grandpa came back with the candied hawthorn Zilvia was nowhere to be seen..."

He was holding back, trying not to cry or break down Athena's nails dug deeply into her palms, the pain piercing sharply

were nearly driven mad With their bodies over sisty, they stumbled around searching everywhere, asking everyone, even kneeling on the ground and to people, begging for help to find their grandchild" He sighed. There were surveillance cameras in the mall, but they weren't as widespread as they are now. There were blind spots. The cameras showed that after your grandma walked away, Zilvia seemed to notice something and worked toward the side of the mall on her own. Her figure disappeared into a blind spot in the surveillance cameras. We tried every possible way-posting missing person ads everywhere, crying on TV and websites, asking relatives and friends for brip. The media, police, and citizens of Kitmore City also joined the

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to a crowded, complicated place during the holiday, deliberately abandoning her." He went on, "Some even said that your grandpa and grandma sold their granddaughter and had arranged for human traffickers to be on-site, suggesting that the investigation should start with them. When your grandpa and grandma beand these rumors, they were deeply traumatized. One had a stroke and collapsed on the spot, while the other fell down the and broke a leg. Although they received prompt medical attention, your grandpa was left with delayed reactions and molality issues, and your grandma not only had her eyesight severely i impaired but also had to use a wheelchair for daily mobility looted regretful. "This disaster also drained all the family's savings. We sold our original three-story hoe and moved to a worker's dormitory area, renting an apartment in the same building, so the family had so spht mu two separate unuts. Your grandma and grandpa dahn't want to be a burden to us and insisted on moving to the countsyair planning to grow some vegetables and raise chickens to help support the family. Of courie, we thempol Žilvia mel countryside, but living here would only remind them od Zalvia and cause them to companilyary, feet gully and be worrind So, your mum decided to go with them to the countryside to tal Chapter

Jaden, was fifteen years old and had just

exams.

away from their mother for extended periods, Jaden suggested that he go to the countryside to look after his grandparents. He transferred to a middle school in the county and later to a high school there.

into college, he transferred his younger brother, Joshua, to the county high school to take over the responsibility

to the county high school

the countryside to care for their grandparents, managing to hold

returned to her hometown with Maria. After that, Maria was sold by her biological father to be a child bride, and we went to adopt Maria. At this point, Wesley seemed to calm down a bit. He finally lifted his face from his hands, picked up a glass of water, and sipped

we never gave up searching for Zilvia Every year, we regularly paid a

Athena

Wesla

ago, during the summer vacation, the reason we