Su Luo always felt that she was not a good person, so the black-faced mask suited her even better.
"The black face is fine, I'll give the white face to Yan Chuan, he likes justice."
He picked out five masks and paid the shopkeeper.
The two had just turned around when they were met by a nun.
She was a nun who practiced Buddhism while still keeping her hair, wearing monastic robes, which were somewhat tattered.
To protect the lantern that Su Luo had given him, Nangong Qing dodged to the side, and the woman, unable to dodge in time, fell to the ground.
"Young lady, are you alright?"
Su Luo reached out to help her up, but the nun's eyes were filled with fear.
From beginning to end, she didn't look at Su Luo and Nangong Qing once; her eyes were fixed on what was behind her, as if some jackals or tigers were chasing her.
"Help me, help me..."
It scrambled up behind Su Luo, huddled on her back, and trembled with fear.
"Girl, what's wrong?"
Before Su Luo could finish speaking, a middle-aged couple came running up to them.
He was panting heavily, pointing at the girl behind Su Luo.
"...Fang Liu, who gave you the audacity to run away? Come back with your mother right now."
"Liu'er, your father and mother are doing this for your own good. You're so disobedient. Do you even recognize your father and mother anymore?"
The man who claimed to be the girl's father spoke in a very abrupt tone.
The girl shrank even further behind Su Luo in fear.
"Madam, we need to take our daughter home. Please make way."
Su Luo didn't want to get involved in other people's family affairs, and was about to move aside when the girl named Fang Liu followed her over.
It was as if Su Luo had become her only support at this moment.
"Don't go, save me..."
Since they were both women, Nangong Qing couldn't very well pull them aside, especially since they were dressed as nuns, so he couldn't touch them at all.
"Excuse me, are you really this girl's parents?"
Nangong Qing stepped forward and asked skeptically, "It's not like parents would do something like this to drive a girl to this state."
"Of course we are Liu'er's parents. You can ask her if you don't believe me..."
Fang's mother pointed loudly at her daughter behind Su Luo and said to Nangong Qing.
She looks so much like Fang Liu, how could she not be her mother?
Nangong Qing and Su Luo both turned to look at the girl. They couldn't interfere in the family affairs, but if they encountered a trafficker, Nangong Qing couldn't just stand by and do nothing.
The girl nodded slightly.
It really was her parents.
“Girl, since they are your parents, you should go back with them. It’s very dangerous to run away.”
"don't want……"
The girl was terrified; if she went back with her parents, she would be tortured to death.
"Father, Mother, please let me go. I've already become a nun, so please don't worry about me anymore."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Fang was filled with anger and pointed at the girl, cursing.
"Fang Liu, have you lost your mind? Do you know what will happen to our family if you run away? Do you even care about our family's reputation?"
You only have one younger brother. Are you trying to kill him? I've raised you for so many years, and this is how you repay me?
Fang Liu burst into tears. She didn't want things to be like this; she was terrified.
"Dad, I don't want to, but I don't want to marry Ah Hu either. He's a scoundrel. I even saw him harassing respectable women in the street. When they didn't cooperate, he beat them up badly."
Dad, I don't want to marry him. He's not a good person. If I marry him, he'll beat me to death.
"Father, I beg you, don't take me back. Just pretend I'm dead, let me live out my days on the mountain with only the light of a lamp for company."
Fang's parents came forward and tried to pull Fang Liu away from behind Su Luo, but Fang Liu dodged them and wouldn't let them touch her.
Seeing her daughter's resistance, Fang's mother softened her tone.
"Liu'er, which man isn't impulsive and hot-tempered when he's young? Once you're married and have a family, Ah Hu's heart will settle down. As long as you take good care of him, you won't have to worry about him not turning back."
"No, no..."
Fang Liu burst into tears, "I don't want to marry him. I'll die if I marry him. Please let me become a nun."
Upon hearing that she wanted to become a nun, Fang's father became even angrier. He had finally managed to bring his daughter back, and now she wanted to become a nun. Did she really think they couldn't understand her thoughts?
"Fang Liu, you and A Hu were betrothed since you were still children. It was arranged by A Hu's father and me before you were even born."
Although Ah Hu's parents are no longer alive, we cannot break off the engagement. You must marry Ah Hu.
We cannot let you ruin our good reputation, nor can we allow people to speak ill of us behind our backs.
"If you don't marry him, we'll lose our credibility. What girl would dare marry your brother in the future? You're going to cut off the Fang family line."
Seeing that Fang Liu hesitated, Fang's father quickly continued.
“Liu’er, I know that you and that scholar Qi are in love. You want to become a nun for two years, and then return to secular life to be with him after he passes the imperial examination.”
But Ah Hu told him that since you were engaged, he ran away, so you shouldn't be sad for someone like that, and go back to your parents.
"When you get home, as long as you behave, your parents promise not to lock you up again."
Suddenly, Su Luo felt sorry for the girl behind her. Everyone says that no parent doesn't love their child.
But some parents don't deserve to be called parents at all; they're an insult to those two sacred words.
For some empty fame, he's willing to push his own daughter into the fire.
Upon hearing that Qi Shusheng had left, Fang Liu's body went limp.
Her parents' understanding was different from hers. Brother Qi was such a good person, and he loved her so much. He would never leave just because he heard that she was engaged.
He will definitely try his best to help me break off the engagement. If he says he left, it must be because Ah Hu killed Brother Qi.
"Father, Father... tell me, how is Brother Qi? Was he beaten by Ah Hu? How badly is he hurt? Tell me, tell me..."
Fang Liu cried her heart out. If Brother Qi didn't want her anymore and wanted her to marry Ah Hu, she would rather die.
Fang's father's eyes darted around, and Fang Liu had indeed guessed the gist of the matter.
"That Qi scholar is still alive, but he's really gone. Ah Hu said that as long as you marry him, he won't bother Qi scholar anymore."
"He's gone... Brother Qi is gone, what am I going to do... what am I going to do..."
Fang Liu murmured, her small face covered in tears, her right hand resting on her lower abdomen.
Looking at her face, which was dry and yellowish, and whose eyes looked tired, Su Luo could tell that she was pregnant.
In that instant, Su Luo seemed to see the end of this girl's life.
A pair of parents who pressured their child into marriage for the sake of their reputation.
A man who gets someone pregnant and then just walks away.
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