Nan Yuanman tilted her head and looked at the older sister's back, sighing inwardly. It seemed that the older sister hadn't taken her words to heart.
She stood there, conflicted. Should she go and save the older woman? But her grandfather had said she shouldn't get involved in other people's karma...
While Nan Yuanman was struggling with her doubts, her short, stocky, and exceptionally pretty and cute face gradually attracted the attention of the adults around her.
The little girl standing in the lobby had a small, chubby face with delicate features and fair skin, like a finely sculpted porcelain doll.
Just as the young lady standing behind her was itching to strike up a conversation with Nan Yuanman, Nan Yuanman stomped her foot, turned around, and quickly followed Qiu Shi and her group.
Oh well, she's already meddled in too many things these past few days, one more won't make a difference.
That woman was a good person, and her life shouldn't have turned out like this.
No sooner had Nan Yuanman left than an excited female voice rang out from a corner of the restaurant: "I've already applied to medical school as you requested! I even gave my prize money to my sister! What more do you want from me?"
"Yes! It's true that my sister is frail and sickly! But is it my fault that she's frail and sickly? Isn't it because of you two good-for-nothing parents? If you had paid more attention to her back then, wouldn't she be a normal person now?"
People around looked curiously in the direction from which the sound came.
Then I saw a young girl in a restaurant waitress uniform standing in the corner, her eyes red and her voice trembling as she spoke to the other end of the phone: "Mom, I'm your daughter too. I'm only eighteen. I get tired too. Why can't you think about me?"
A strong female voice came from the other end of the phone: "When have we ever not thought about you? If we hadn't thought about you, would you have been able to get into university?"
"We raised you all these years, and you're still the older sister. What's wrong with asking you to take care of your younger sister? Tingting, you're trying to break your mother's heart by saying these things!"
"Haven't I taken good care of her enough!" Xie Tingting raised her voice excitedly: "I picked her up and dropped her off from elementary school to junior high school, and I cooked her meals. She wanted a study room, and I gave her my bedroom to use as a study room without saying a word. I slept on the sofa myself. Isn't that taking care of her?"
"Mom, are you trying to drive me to my death before you're satisfied?"
While Xie Tingting was emotionally agitated, a ghostly figure, invisible to others, slowly appeared behind her.
The student ghost greedily absorbed the negative energy emanating from Xie Tingting, slowly crawling into the phone in her hand...
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On the other side.
After leaving the restaurant, Qiu Shi and her group parted ways. Only the woman in the red dress and the woman supporting Qiu Shi turned into a secluded alley.
A van was parked in the alley, its windows covered with a black film, making it impossible to see what was inside.
Upon seeing someone approaching, the van door was opened, and two tall men stepped out, waving and greeting the woman in the red dress.
Upon seeing the two men with tattoos on their arms and a fierce appearance, the girl following behind the woman in the red dress paused slightly, hesitatingly saying, "Sister Wei, maybe we should call it quits? If someone finds out, then we..."
"Forget it? You guys forget it, but I haven't." Liu Wei snorted: "Back in high school, Qiu Shi always stole my thunder. At this gathering, she knew I liked Yu Junhao, yet she still flirted with him. I can't get over this without teaching her a lesson."
Liu Wei tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, turned her head, and looked at her with a mocking gaze: "Besides, Yu Meimei, you were the one who poured the drink for Qiu Shi."
"Now that we're here, there's no use regretting it."
"Besides...aren't you very jealous of Qiu Shi? Jealous that she's good-looking, has good grades, and now has a high-paying job. Don't you want to... trample her underfoot?"
Yu Meimei pursed her lips and remained silent. She tightened her grip on Qiu Shi's arm, her sharp fingertips pinching the skin on the inside of Qiu Shi's arm.
Seeing Yu Meimei's pathetic appearance, Liu Wei sneered mockingly and swayed her hips as she walked towards the man next to the van: "Brother Niu, I've brought the person to you."
"She's a top student I used to know, so you guys have to be gentle with her and treat her kindly~" Liu Wei said seductively, running her fingertips lightly across the chest of the man she called Brother Niu.
Brother Niu, his mind wandering, laughed heartily: "Don't worry, we brothers are the most chivalrous of all."
Another man impatiently reached out and roughly pulled Qiu Shi away from Yu Meimei: "Come and let me see what this woman looks like."
Conscious but unable to control her body, Qiu Shi was desperately pulled into his arms. His rough, large hand, reeking of sweat and cigarette smoke, pinched her face and examined her, nodding in satisfaction: "Not bad looking!"
Whether they sell them to be wives or send them to work as prostitutes, it can help them attract a large number of customers.
"Okay, I'm taking her with me." Brother Niu pinched Liu Wei's butt and had Qiu Shi roughly shoved into the car: "We'll contact each other online later."
Liu Wei gave him a reproachful glare and replied with an "okay".
The van door closed in front of her and slowly drove away from the alley.
At that moment, in the car, Brother Niu's companion was extremely impatient, tearing at Qiu Shi's clothes: "This woman looks so innocent, just my type. Brother, let me check her out first."
Brother Niu, who was driving, glanced at it and said, "Be careful, don't break it."
"rest assured!"
While fully conscious, Qiu Shi felt her clothes being ripped off. She was filled with fear, despair, and regret. She tried desperately to struggle, but her body was as if it were sealed, limp and completely beyond her control.
Miss Nan had clearly warned her not to drink the wine offered by her friends at the banquet that evening, but she still took a chance, believing that Yu Meimei, whom she had known for ten years, would not harm her, and drank the wine that Yu Meimei poured for her without any suspicion...
She was wrong; she underestimated the evil in human nature.
If, if she had listened to Miss Nan's advice and hadn't drunk that glass of wine, would she be in this situation now?
Qiu Shi was filled with despair, but on the surface she remained motionless like a corpse, letting others do as they pleased.
Just as the man was about to pull down her pants, a child suddenly appeared in front of the van that was driving away from the alley.
Brother Niu: "!!! Holy crap!"
He swore and slammed on the brakes.
The man who was lying on top of Qiu Shi was thrown into the back seat due to inertia, his head slamming heavily against the back of the car seat: "Ouch! Holy crap, Brother Niu, what's going on?"
"Damn it, a little devil suddenly appeared, scared me to death." Brother Niu's forehead slammed against the steering wheel, and he hissed and gasped in pain, still shaken. This wasn't an area without surveillance cameras; if he had hit someone, he'd be going to jail!
Nan Yuanman tilted her head to look at the van, then at the woman in the red dress slowly walking out of the alley. She raised her wrist and dialed 110 with her smartwatch: "Officer! I need to report a crime. Someone is trafficking women!"
The operator who received the emergency call: "???"
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