Chapter 24
Ten-year-old Ping'an woke up from the high fever and became much quieter.
She no longer resisted Xiang Heng.
Cheng Xiangheng was very satisfied with Ping An's changes. They ate and slept together, and spent almost twenty-three hours together out of twenty-four hours a day.
A year passed, and Ping'an grew up rapidly. Her limbs became more slender and her waist became softer. With the habit of drinking a glass of milk every day, Ping'an's skin became whiter and her height was almost the same as Cheng Xiangheng.
Apart from his poor grades, Cheng Xiangheng was very satisfied.
He taught her horse riding, archery, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and let her learn all the aristocratic etiquette bit by bit. Over time, Ping An gradually shed her former rustic atmosphere. No one looked down on her anymore, and no one disliked her for not knowing the rules. Everyone thought she was worthy of standing by Cheng Xiangheng's side.
When Cheng Xiangheng was twelve years old, his mother died.
As soon as Cheng Xiangheng's mother died, the Li family quickly divided power with the Cheng family. Before anyone could react, all the Cheng family's assets in the country were suddenly liquidated by the government. Cheng Xiangheng's father, Cheng Yeming, was forced to take his illegitimate son abroad overnight.
The entire Cheng family was in a panic. At this time, an appraisal report was placed in front of Cheng Xiangheng.
Cheng Xiangheng looked at the appraisal report that stated "not father-son relationship" and sneered.
Cheng Xiangheng was regarded by the Cheng family as a bastard born from the affair between Li's mother and someone else, while the Li family believed that even if Cheng Xiangheng was not a child of the Cheng family, his heart must be with the Cheng family, so he was abandoned.
The Cheng family's mortal enemies would not allow Cheng Xiangheng to continue living in the Cheng family. They drove Cheng Xiangheng out. Under the residual power of the Li family, no one dared to touch Cheng Xiangheng, and no one dared to help him. Overnight, he became a stray dog.
In winter, it rains heavily and the wind is cold.
Cheng Xiangheng sat on the ground at the intersection with an expressionless face. He was covered in wounds and his leg was broken.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the boy's face was slowly turning purple.
The former friends were walking together, and when they passed Cheng Xiangheng, they all turned their heads away and pretended not to know him.
"Is that Cheng Xiangheng?"
"Why are you like a drowned dog?"
"Stop talking, stop talking. His father gave up on him. I heard that he was the result of a conspiracy between his mother and someone else. He's not from the Cheng family at all."
"He's not from the Cheng family, yet he's so arrogant. I've long been fed up with his pretentious behavior."
"Let's go quickly, so as not to be bothered by him later."
Cheng Xiangheng had a splitting headache. The noisy sound in the distance appeared and disappeared, making him very uncomfortable.
He stood up, his eyes cold: "What are you talking about."
One boy was startled. Cheng Xiangheng had always been a lot bigger than them since he was little. He was a little scared at first, but then he came to his senses and said nonchalantly, "Cheng Xiangheng, you still think you're the eldest son of the Cheng family? You're such an idiot! If you're willing to kneel down and call me dad, I can consider giving you some money to let you run away!"
The people around him are all from wealthy families, and they recognize whoever has the ability. Now that Cheng Xiangheng has been abandoned by the Cheng family, naturally no one will care about him.
Cheng Xiangheng smiled, his eyes grim: "Do you want to die?"
Ping An counted her own little treasury. She had deducted a lot of money from Cheng Xiangheng in the past two years, so it would not be a problem for her to rent a house near the school for three years.
She asked an aunt she knew to help her negotiate with the landlord so that she could clean up the house and live in it.
She definitely could not continue to attend the original first grade of junior high school. She did not have the money to go to a noble junior high school, so she could only transfer to a public junior high school in the place of residence of the original noble junior high school. After much deliberation, she chose a public junior high school that was a bit remote but had good educational quality.
The rent nearby was not particularly cheap, but the public school was not boarding, so she could only rent an old and dilapidated one-bedroom apartment.
After doing all this, Ping An wrapped herself tightly in her down jacket and decided to go out shopping after the rain stopped. She wanted to buy some spicy hot pot and a chicken chop to celebrate her new life.
I put on a big and thick down jacket, got on my bike, rode safely all the way, bought some daily necessities and some food, and then rode towards home.
It seemed like it was going to rain again. Ping'an's face was a little red from the cold. She sniffed. The weather was really too cold.
It started to drizzle, and the ground under Ping An's wheels was not very flat, with puddles of water everywhere. The puddles had frozen into ice, so Ping An rode very carefully.
She was really too cautious and observed the surrounding environment too carefully, so she saw clearly the unconscious Cheng Xiangheng being thrown into the trash can.
The rain was getting heavier, mixed with snowflakes.
Snowflakes fluttered down and soon covered Li Cheng Xiangheng's body in the corner.
He was just a twelve-year-old boy, but in the blink of an eye he was mixed up with trash.
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