Back at the thatched hut on the hillside, Zhao Xiaoyue poured a glass of water. "Master, have some water and calm down."
Sixth Master Pu calmly took the cup. "Why did you come here?"
Zhao Xiaoyue went around behind the table. "I've come to see my godmother."
Master Pu glanced at it indifferently, "Tell the truth, don't waste your time."
Nothing can be hidden from this person.
“Master, Hunter,” Zhao Xiaoyue paused slightly, “I want Hunter to transition into a different role.”
Sixth Master Pu held the cup and rubbed it, saying, "You decide what to do."
"Master, please come back to Haishi with me for the New Year!" Zhao Xiaoyue lay on the table, looking pitifully at Master Pu.
How can one describe Zhao Xiaoyue's feelings at this moment, as if she were a stagnant pool devoid of life and as withered as a piece of wood?
A person walks in the boundless darkness, holding a lamp that sways precariously. If the wind picks up even slightly, the lamp goes out, and the person merges into the darkness, their fate unknown, whether dead or alive.
"Hey, you can choose to inherit my hunter's assets or donate them. You decide what to do. I'll make sure to give Hou Taotao and the others clear instructions."
"I'm only eleven years old!"
"But you're more than eleven years old!"
Zhao Xiaoyue's eyes were red. "Wait two years."
Master Pu lowered his head. "You don't understand."
Zhao Xiaoyue saw her master's calm eyes slightly curved, "The length of time is meaningless to me now."
“Ordinary,” Zhao Xiaoyue knelt on the ground, “Waaaaah, Master, you said you’d wait until I came of age, waaaaah, you can’t go back on your word, waaaaah…”
She wiped away the tears that kept falling like broken beads from her face, "I already have very few relatives, and it was so hard to finally meet my master, sob sob sob..."
Looking at his crying apprentice, Master Pu asked, "Do you know what I would have done the first time I returned to Haishi without you?"
Zhao Xiaoyue shook her head, sobbing, and looked pitifully at Master Pu who was sitting there.
“Disband the Hunters, donate all the assets, give the company to Hou Taotao and the others, and then go back to Huanhai Town to be with Qingqing… She’ll be scared in dark places.”
No wonder I haven't seen Master Pu since I was eight years old; it turns out he had already committed suicide for love at that time!
No wonder I'd never heard of any hunters before; they'd disbanded!
"I should have gone to be with her from the beginning... Now are you still going to keep me here?"
Zhao Xiaoyue felt a sharp pain in her heart, a sour feeling surging through her chest. She wiped her face, stood up, sat opposite Master Pu, took a sip of water, and forcefully suppressed the turbulent emotions in her heart.
“In my past life, after I turned eight, I never saw you again,” Zhao Xiaoyue glanced at Master Pu and began to recount the story straightforwardly. “Then my mother died, and my father was heartbroken and soon died of depression as well. My maternal grandmother wanted to raise me, but her two sons wouldn’t allow it, and in the end… I starved to death…”
Zhao Xiaoyue tilted her head back, forcing back her tears, "I was sold to England by human traffickers. I was too young at the time, otherwise, just because I'm a girl, I wouldn't have survived to reach England..."
Thinking back to those dark days...
The moment Zhao Xiaoyue woke up on the ship, she realized that she had been sold by human traffickers.
Two foreign men, completely naked, were brought in by an old woman. Zhao Xiaoyue screamed in fright, "This little guy? You filthy bitch, are you trying to fool me? You said he was tender, not a chick!"
Zhao Xiaoyue was terrified, cowering in the corner in fear, the sound of tearing fabric piercing her eardrums...
Each blow assaulted Zhao Xiaoyue's young soul. Cries for mercy and unrestrained laughter filled the air. Despite her desperate attempts to cover her ears and close her eyes, the sounds and gestures still reached her, leaving her with no way to escape.
She fainted from fright.
The next day, she had a persistent high fever and collapsed in a corner. That night, the old woman dragged her into a dark room, stripped her of all her clothes, and even showed a smug, ferocious, and terrifying smile on her face.
Why didn't that old woman hit me, even though she's so scary?
She later learned that only spirited and healthy sheep could fetch high prices. Some aristocratic buyers with fetishes would pay high prices for outstanding-looking girls, either to auction off their virginity when they were sixteen, or to keep them in captivity and use them as sexual objects when the time was right.
Before this, they would be forced to work as waitresses in casinos and bars for three years, and if they were noticed by someone, they would be sold at a high price.
Zhao Xiaoyue was sent to a casino and worked as a waiter for a year. Later, he encountered a comic convention and was used as a punching bag by the guests in the private room. He was hit on the head and bled profusely, and his entire arm was covered with glass.
As he lay dying, Zhao Xiaoyue secretly dragged him to the corner of the stairs, numbly pulled out the glass, and stole medicine to bandage him.
This method was taught to me by a woman on the ship, who later died.
Sometimes, for a small tip, Zhao Xiaoyue would be targeted and abused by the waiters, and the two of them gradually became each other's support.
Later, an explosion occurred at the casino, and the two took the opportunity to escape!
Pu Liuye took a sip of water, his expression calm and undisturbed.
Zhao Xiaoyue remained silent for a long time. "At first, we picked up trash and sometimes even cheated homeless people out of their money," she said with a self-deprecating laugh. "Once we were sure no one was looking for us, we started working. To make ends meet, the two of us ate leftover food from restaurants for two years."
Only leftovers are free; the uneaten food is reprocessed and sent to the next table.
Two years later, the two of them looked at the three hundred pounds in their hands and grinned foolishly. They finally had money.
Buying boat tickets or plane tickets costs money, so at comic conventions you just wait at the pier to see if anyone wants to dress up as Xie Gong or something.
Zhao Xiaoyue continued to work at the restaurant and pack three meals a day for the two of them.
Once every six months, a ferry bound for China was short of stevedores and the owner was in a panic. The comic convention seized the opportunity to promote him and Zhao Xiaoyue.
The two successfully boarded the ship, but if Zhao Xiaoyue hadn't noticed in time, the comic convention would have been swept away by the waves.
In the darkness, the sea surface was eerily black, with flashes of lightning and thunder in the distance that occasionally pierced the darkness, revealing the rolling waves in the brief moments of light.
The ship drifted at sea for a month before finally arriving at the port.
They used cover to slip away quietly, without even taking their wages.
At the comic convention, I exchanged a little money for Chinese currency, and hid the rest in my underwear pocket.
Zhao Xiaoyue laughed when she thought about it. "Hehehe," tears welled up in her eyes. "Master, you don't know, when I said that place was the safest, the anime convention was in a state of doubt, but they still obediently did as I said."
Back then, the order wasn't as developed as it is now. It was legal for Zhao Xiaoyue to give his own name, but he became an unregistered person at the comic convention. They didn't dare let him show his face in front of government officials, otherwise he would have been deported.
He successfully became an unregistered resident!
He used his limited funds to start a small business, and later learned to trade stocks, making a small profit before stopping immediately.
When Zhao Xiaoyue was eighteen, she invested in an electronic product. Through their continuous efforts, the two of them successfully went public when they were twenty-five.
Zhao Xiaoyue took a sip of water. "Later, when things got bigger, I and the comic convention team were very wicked and monopolized the market, becoming the evil capitalists in people's eyes!"
But undeniably, it was awesome!
It feels so good to have the power of life and death!
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