Chapter 204

Chapter 204

Natasha was ‘harboring a secret guest‘ against her will.

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Her feelings could be summed up in one word: regret–deep, gnawing regret.

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After quarreling with her family, she stormed out alone to clear her head. Passing through an alley, she stumbled upon a bleeding man.

Every film and TV drama she had ever seen warned her not to pick up strangers from the street, so she immediately turned to flee.

But he was faster. He seized her ankle, pulled out her ID card and student ID, and clung to her with stubborn force.

She had no choice but to get him a room and buy medicine for his wounds.

Once he wiped his face clean, the so–called ‘bad man‘ revealed himself to be a strikingly handsome young man, perhaps only three or four years older than her.

“I’m going home,” she said, masking her surprise with a cold expression.

Though she tried to remain calm, the sixteen–year–old could not hide the faint trace of fear in her beautiful eyes–fear that made her utterly transparent.

Alexei toyed with the student ID in his hand and sneered, “Are you abandoning your task? Are you trying to run away halfway through saving someone?”

She puffed her cheeks indignantly and said, “It’s not like I wanted to save you.”

“But if I go out now and my enemies discover you rescued me, they’ll assume you’re working with me,” he replied coolly.

Natasha froze, staring at him as if to say, “How could you be so ungrateful?”

She demanded, “So what now?”

Alexei smiled faintly, glancing at the student ID on the bed. “Natasha, it seems I’ll have to trouble you to hide me,” he said.

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Natasha secretly rented a run–down one–bedroom apartment in the old district.

The space was so cramped that it was hard even to turn around.

Alexei scoffed, “You expect me to live here?”

The still–fuming girl was expressionless as she replied, “What did you expect? I’m only sixteen. And very poor.”

yes,

I’m

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his bank cards useless. The rent was paid

It pained her deeply.

her with

belonged to an elite institution. A family wealthy enough

seeing her seriousness, he flicked her forehead lightly, thinking, “Never mind.

head, frowned, and muttered back in mocking

her soft cheeks and asked, “Natasha, are you

widened her eyes innocently, and

brow, saw through her

“How much did you spend? I’ll repay you a hundredfold later.”

lit up at once and asked,

kitten–easily duped, yet convinced

to pinch her again, but

“It’s true,” he replied.

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a simple rhythm: school,

skilled at drawing information out of people, soon learned her family story: blind parents, a cold older brother, a slow–witted younger brother, and a conniving stepsister. She was the least

of them all.

scavenging for a late–night snack. Watching this, Alexei ground his teeth

me

my money,” she replied as she crouched at a

sitting on the bed changing his bandages, chuckled

as she poked a finger

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around

pouted, “They don’t even

one prepared her midnight snacks

and studied every day,

then clenched his jaw. He asked, “Do you

eyes sparkled instantly, and she lifted her bowl. “Just a little more,” she

put down the

to school?” she asked idly, legs swinging as

he should be finishing high school or starting

of freshly cooked pasta and kept the rest for

already graduated,”

school,

accounted for

to pursue, grudges to settle. He could not waste time–he had to

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