In this incident, Ji Xueer is arguably the most innocent person to be involved.

Not only would he have ruined his meteoric rise to stardom, but he would have almost lost his life.

This is why Jiang Yilai let her go and even spoke up for her.

Seeing that she kept her head down, Jiang Yilai gently comforted her.

“Miss Ji, I can sense your sadness. Please tell me, and I will try to help you resolve this.”

Ji Xue'er shook her head gently. She couldn't bring herself to say these things when she looked up; only in this way could she have the face to say them.

"Miss Jiang, you would never guess that I come from a poor family in a remote mountain area, looking so glamorous now."

Jiang Yilai really didn't see that, and besides, these things were not a sin for her at all.

“At least you still have your parents by your side, while I don’t even know what my father looks like, and my mother left me early.”

"Sometimes I would rather not have parents."

Jiang Yilai spoke in a hoarse voice, her short sentence seemingly encompassing a myriad of things.

Ji Xueer continued in a low voice, "I have two older brothers and a younger brother. My parents only care about them and have never cared for me. They only remembered me when it was time for them to get married."

Jiang Yilai had come into contact with the bad habits of impoverished mountainous areas. In some places, the law was not widely known, which allowed them to maintain feudal ideas and always feel that men were superior to women.

“My family was poor and lived in a remote area, so it was impossible for me to find a wife. For the sake of my two older brothers, they married me off when I was just starting middle school to an old man in the next village who had lost his wife, in exchange for his two daughters marrying into our family.”

Jiang Yilai asked with concern, "Don't your local village chiefs care about these things?"

"That's how it's been passed down from generation to generation. Who cares about our lives? They tied me up and took me to their house..."

When old wounds are reopened and the bloody scene is laid out before your eyes, the pain will be a hundred times greater than before.

Ji Xueer sobbed, "They locked me up for a year, wanting me to bear their son, and in the end they succeeded and got me pregnant."

Jiang Yilai's eyes reddened, and she grabbed her hand tightly. This hell on earth really exists, and it happens to many innocent people.

"What happened next?"

“They let their guard down around me, and when I was six months pregnant, I pretended to have severe stomach pains. They took me to the town hospital, and I took the opportunity to escape.”

Ji Xueer's voice grew softer and softer, "But I was really unlucky. They caught me on the way back, took me back and beat me up badly, trying to scare me. As a result, I lost my baby that night."

As she spoke the last few words, she smiled, as if in prayer, or perhaps with a sense of relief.

“I thought to myself, this must be God hearing my prayers. If the child is really born, I will definitely strangle him. This is my true feeling.”

Jiang Yilai felt a lump in her throat, unable to utter a single word.

She could even sense the torment and suffering Ji Xueer had endured back then.

“He was very angry and wanted to sell me. An aunt from the same village who was doing special business in another place happened to come back to visit relatives. She saw that I had a good appearance and took me in, taking me to the big city.”

As she spoke, she slowly raised her head, as if it were the beginning of another chapter in her life.

She turned to look at Jiang Yilai, who was in tears, and said with a bitter smile, "Miss Jiang, do you know how old I was back then? I was not even seventeen when I came to the city."

Her desperate yet hopeful gaze struck Jiang Yilai's heart.