Children's skin is delicate. Yuanyuan inherited the original owner's fair skin. A slight pinch would leave a mark, and without any medicine, the new wounds plus the old ones looked shocking.
She reached out to touch the scars, but Yuanyuan immediately widened her eyes and backed away, her hand freezing in mid-air.
"Yuanyuan, Mommy is sorry. Don't be afraid. Mommy will never hit you again."
For some reason, seeing these scars caused her heart to clench with pain, as if she were the one who had given birth to the child.
Fortunately, the original owner didn't bathe the child often, otherwise she might have been covered in bruises.
Su Jingjing spoke softly and gently in the child's ear, trying to ease her fear.
"Be good, Mommy will give Yuanyuan a nice bath so she'll smell nice, just like her brother."
The child's arms and legs are so thin, it feels like they could break with the slightest force. The child is really too skinny.
Li Yuanyuan's body stopped trembling, and she opened her big, dark eyes to see her mother. Her mother was so gentle today. Her mother hadn't called her a "money-loser" these past two days, and she knew that "money-loser" wasn't a good word.
I washed Yuanyuan twice before she was completely clean. Then I quickly grabbed a dry towel to dry her off. She's a bit weak, and it would be troublesome if she caught a cold.
After drying her off, I immediately changed Yuanyuan's clothes. As soon as I touched the fabric, I found that the clothes were very rough and were obviously boys' clothes. There were only a few lonely summer clothes hanging in the closet. I don't know how the two children would get through the winter.
The original owner never cared about the child's food and clothing, and Li Hanting was too busy with work to notice these things either.
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