The girl's voice was calm, but the doorman could still hear her helplessness and confusion in her tone.

He didn't interrupt her, nor did he ask her why a girl like a girl from the mountains could stay in a seven-star luxury hotel.

He drove silently down the road, looking out his window at the dark winter sky, and looking up he could see the snow piling down on the roof.

After the car drove away from the city, woods, snow, and crowds of people playing snowball fights appeared on the side of the road.

"When I was six years old, my adoptive parents gave birth to their first child, a boy."

"Since then, their attitude towards me has changed, they no longer care about me and they don't let me live in the house anymore."

"Can you imagine me sleeping in a bullpen? Grizzled and covered in the stench of animal feces, it is disgusting wherever you go. ”

"But I didn't resent it at the time, because it had taken all my strength to live, as long as I could live, I just wanted to live."

"However, when I was seventeen years old, I had a very serious illness and lay in the cattle pen for three days, and when I recovered, my body deteriorated, and I could no longer do heavy work, nor could I lighten the burden on my family."

Speaking of this, Jiang Ruoming paused: "My adoptive parents think I'm useless, and plan to marry me to a widower in the village, who is a man in his fifties, who was beaten to death by him when his wife was pregnant in the early years, and no one dares to marry him again." ”

"The widower was willing to pay a thousand dollars for me, and the adoptive parents agreed."

"I was too young to know how important it was for a girl to get married, I just knew that I could get out of the bullpen and sleep in the house."

Before she could finish speaking, her tears fell,

"Only God knows how bad it is to sleep in a leaky hut."

"I was originally accepting my fate, but when the widower came to me and did something to me, I was still afraid, I ran out like crazy, I didn't want to live with him."

"He reminded me of bed bugs in the gutter, and they all stinked in their bones."

Jiang Ruoming still remembers that nightmarish night, the widower pulled her to the death, wanted to take her home, and valued her like a cargo along the way.

The adoptive parents and the people in the village looked at her coldly, and no one came out to help her.

Everyone seems to have foreseen her end.

The widower kept swearing in his mouth, asking her to pass on his lineage and have more sons, and if she was disobedient, he would break her legs and make her worse than dead.

"I don't remember how I struggled to call for help, I just remember that I was scared, and I didn't know what I was afraid of, I desperately resisted him, and he slapped him a few times."

"Later, he threw me into the dark room, and I could clearly hear the sound of him undressing and the cold laughter, a scene I will never forget."

"And later—"

Jiang Ruoming raised her hand to cover her eyes, and a hint of trembling appeared in her calm voice.

"Then I was lucky not to be hurt by this, and a man who claimed to be my brother came to my rescue."

Speaking of this, she couldn't say anything, as long as she thought of the scene where Jiang Cheng appeared, she couldn't keep calm.

"He rescued me from the dark room, avenged me, sent both the widower and the adoptive parents to prison, and took me ...... I came to a big city that I had never seen before. ”

"He said that I am his sister, my father's daughter, and he will always be by my side, always protect me and love me."

After speaking, Jiang Ruoming kept wiping her tears with her hands, but the tears seemed to be endless, and in the end, she could only cover her eyes with her hands, trying to calm herself down.

"I thought I was finally saved, I thought he was really my family, I could live in a clean house, wear new clothes and shoes, and read and write like all girls."

At this, she convulsed with trembling, and said with great difficulty, "However, all this is false. ”

"I'm not his own sister, and he didn't come to me to help me out of my misery, but just to use me to please his father, or to marry in place of the family."

"The words he promised were also to coax me, and he didn't care about me at all."

"He thought I didn't know his purpose, he didn't know what he was thinking, but he forgot, he was the one who saved me from the mud, he was the one who changed my miserable fate, how could I not know him."

"I understand him better than he does, how can I be willing to let him down."

"However, I am also a human being, and I will be sad and in pain."

"I also hope that someone will truly love me, so that I don't have nightmares at night and no longer fear of being kicked out of my house."

When the girl said this, she couldn't stop crying.

She can only feel a trace of warmth if she hugs herself tightly.

She knew very well why Jiang Cheng beat herself, not because she and Xia Lan tore their faces lightly, but because she wanted something that didn't belong to her.

She shouldn't have threatened Xia Lanqing and tried to get Jiang Yannian to admit her.

Jiang Cheng didn't want her to get out of control.

But—

"I also want to be selfish for once, I want to choose my own destiny."

Sadly, she never had the right to choose.

If it weren't for Jiang Cheng, she would have died in the dark night of the mountain village.

She couldn't get rid of Jiang Cheng at all, because he was her second fate.

"How ridiculous, I obviously wear expensive custom dresses, use the best cosmetics, become a socialite, and study, but I am still the puppet with no ego in my bones."

"Or still live in the shadows, day after day, endlessly."

By the end of the day, her eyes were in despair.

She couldn't blame Jiang Cheng, and she couldn't resent Jiang Yannian's indifference, because they had no relationship with her and had no reason, if they hadn't taken pity on her and took her in, she would have nowhere to go.

"But why am I so sad?"

"I already have too many things, but I'm more sad than ever."

It was so sad that it suffocated her.

"Because you finally understand what you want."

The doorman, who had been silent, spoke at this moment: "In the past, you never saw the sun in the sky, you thought that the world was a small mountain village, and the life in the village was your destiny. ”

"Later, you were rescued and saw the world, and you realized that life is not only dark, but also has countless possibilities."

"However, you still don't have the right to choose, and the grace of saving your life makes you have to choose to obey."

"Until today—" The doorman's tone paused slightly, he turned his head slightly, and said to Jiang Ruoming with a smile: "Congratulations, lady, you have finally found yourself." ”

(End of chapter)