"Gu Jingxi, don't you have anything to say?"
She didn't want to call her out, but she couldn't help it. They all came over to support her, and she still stood up and told them what happened. She's not even as good as a three-year-old. When a child is bullied, they know to go home and ask their parents for help. She's a grown-up, can't she even tell on someone?
"I...Mom, I know I was wrong. I'll never steal food again. Please don't hit me."
Gu Jingxi knew Huo Haocheng, but she had only met Ruan Ruan once in the second year of junior high school and hadn't even had a chance to speak to her. She only knew that Ruan Ruan was Huo Haocheng's wife. She figured that they would help her because of her parents. But she didn't want to think about anything else right now. She just felt that she was very embarrassing in front of them. She remembered how proud she had been when she ran up to Huo Haocheng and told him not to be a toad trying to eat swan meat. Even though she later found out it was a misunderstanding, she still felt that Huo Haocheng had wanted to break them up back then.
But ever since the Lunar New Year, Gu's family has really stopped caring about her, and her life at her in-laws' house has become worse day by day. This time, she was so hungry that she stole a sweet potato to eat, but she didn't expect to be seen by her mother-in-law and chased and beaten so far away.
Huo Haocheng and his wife saw her disheveled state, and all she wanted now was to end it all quickly, go back, and forgive them as soon as possible.
The onlookers were surprised by the girl's comment. Anyone with a bit of backbone would have said something in their favor after someone stood up for them, but she just blurted out something like that.
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