I pursed my lips. Seeing her resentful expression, I felt complicated, not knowing how to console her. Yet, it didn’t seem like she needed my consolation either.

After a while, I spoke up, “I totally understand how you feel, and I empathize with you, but this is just your side of the story. Besides, I shouldn’t stir up trouble in this place.”

Hearing that, she sneered, “Whatever! I know it’s just your excuse. It’s fine if you’re unwilling to help me out, but I will never marry him. I am the master of my fate; no one gets to decide my future for me.”

It was late already, and my phone almost ran out of battery. I left the cowshed, with Amy following suit as she locked it.

After hesitating for a while, I asked, “Isn’t there anything to eat at home? Why didn’t you prepare some food for your sister?”

The little girl replied, “Nope, there’s nothing to eat. We don’t even have leftovers if my mom doesn’t prepare food for Ann, so she could only starve.”

I couldn’t

with this village. It turned out that it was not his first

night, I didn’t manage to sleep well. At dawn, when I almost drifted off to sleep, I was awakened by the sound of people quarreling noisily from

fireplace. Just then, Amy came rushing in with her tear-stricken face. She dragged me out of the house though

mother hit her with an iron rod. Since it rained yesterday, there were blackish water puddles of rainwater mixed with coal all

It’s a waste of food to feed you. You should be grateful when we let you live until now. How dare you injure your brother! I’ll

pleading with me earnestly, and it was heartbreaking to see Ann whimpering in pain. I wanted to stop that woman, yet Boris

the man who was supposed to be here to stop his wife, was nowhere

seeing her sister being beaten up. “Ann injured my brother. My dad just sent him to the hospital. My mom said she is going to kill Ann if anything

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