Lu Feng felt as if his heart was being torn apart, and shook his head, "No, no..."

"Brother Lu, do you know? The old man is sick and doesn't have much time left. I'm so scared. I'm afraid he'll leave me. I don't want the old man to go. I don't want to be alone. Why, why does everyone have to abandon me?"

Zhuang Le took a big gulp of wine, tears streaming down his face as he swallowed it. It was so bitter.

She cried even harder, “I want to be like other children, with parents who love me, a home, and brothers and sisters, but besides my old man, I have nothing. I don’t know what I did wrong? Why are they treating me like this…”

Lu Feng gently coaxed, "You didn't do anything wrong. The fault doesn't lie with you."

"Brother Lu, I'm sorry. You saved me before, but I repaid kindness with enmity. Am I a bad person? You must hate me, right?" Zhuang Le asked anxiously while crying.

She clearly said she wanted to repay his kindness by finding him, yet she left such a terrible impression. She was truly afraid that Lu Feng would despise her and dislike her.

Lu Feng shook his head. "No, you're not a bad person. You've just suffered too much and don't easily trust people. I don't dislike you either."

At first, he just thought she was a bit willful and capricious, and didn't dislike her much. Now that he knew her identity, he disliked her even less, and only felt affection for her.

"How can you be so nice? When you're so nice, it makes me seem even worse, boohoo..."

Zhuang Le cried and cried until she fell asleep on the table.

Lu Feng covered her with a blanket, looked up at the full moon in the night sky, and secretly vowed that he would never let her suffer again.

Li Xiyue came over after cleaning up the kitchen. "Brother Lu, what about Sister Lele?"

Lu Feng explained, "She got drunk, cried, and then fell asleep."

“Brother Lu, if Sister Lele has offended you in any way before, I apologize on her behalf. I hope you won’t blame her,” Li Xiyue said as she sat down next to them.

Zhuang Le suffered a lot; the thorns and sharp edges on her body were just a disguise to protect herself.

"No need to apologize, I really don't blame her."

"Brother Lu, I've already helped Sister Lele find her family," Li Xiyue said with a smile.

Lu Feng's expression changed. "Then, will his family acknowledge her? If not, will she be hurt again?"

Giving her hope only to disappoint her is too cruel for her.

"Actually, Lele's family did not know that she had been abandoned."

What?

Lu Feng was extremely surprised.

"Soon, I will help Sister Lele go home and reunite with her family," Li Xiyue said with a smile, looking at the moon.

Ultimately, men and women are different, and in the end, it was Li Xiyue who carried Zhuang Le home.

Even after falling asleep, Zhuang Le was still sobbing. Old Master Zhuang gently covered her with a blanket, his heart aching for her. "This girl, sigh..."

Li Xiyue then told Old Zhuang about helping Zhuang Le find his family. Upon learning the news, Old Zhuang was initially happy, but then tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep.

He despised himself in his heart. He had been looking forward to this day, but when it came, he felt reluctant to let it go.

Humans are such contradictory beings.