As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh repeatedly.
"It's also our fault. We were too busy with our own family matters. We didn't see Zhihuan all morning, and we didn't even think to knock on the door and ask. As a result, Zhihuan was drugged by that heartless couple..."
As she spoke, Aunt Zhang stamped her foot in self-reproach.
"If we had known they could be so heartless, we should have let Zhihuan leave them and move out a long time ago!"
"Luckily, Zhihuan escaped in time. If she had been any later, who knows what might have happened!"
The anxious way he spoke made it clear that he was worried about Shen Zhihuan as if she were his own child.
Sister Liu nodded in agreement.
"Looking back now, we all feel terrified!"
"A lot of neighbors heard that we came here and came over to ask about Zhihuan!"
Even though I've already gone through it once and felt the concern of the aunties and grandmas.
But when she heard them talk about it again, Shen Zhihuan still couldn't hide her emotion.
It turns out that she wasn't all alone and without any relatives or friends.
These neighbors, though not related to her by blood, cared for her like family.
Thinking of this, and then of the abuse, insults, suffering, and ultimate fate I endured in my previous life…
Shen Zhihuan felt a lump in her throat, her vision blurred, and she felt a soreness that made her want to cry.
The whole day was spent fighting with her parents, trying to escape from the cage-like home that had imprisoned her in her previous life.
It involved gathering evidence, reporting to the police, getting blood drawn at the hospital, and publishing a notice in the newspaper to sever ties with the family...
All of this was something she had never dared to imagine in her previous life.
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