Zhu Ya sat on the sofa with her high heels placed aside. She hugged her legs with her hands and buried her face in her knees.

Her left hand was held by someone to treat the wound.

“No need to be so meticulous.”

She's used to it.

Over the years, whenever she got injured, as long as it was not serious, she would just get through it. If it was serious, she would just go to the hospital and get simple treatment.

It's just a superficial wound, not that precious.

He bandaged her hand carefully, and then looked at it again and again with heartache.

"I'm sorry I couldn't catch you just now."

Zhu Ya smiled in relief: "Luckily you didn't catch me. If you had caught me... I would probably have bitten and scratched you like my family, like a mad dog, wouldn't I?"

As she spoke she started laughing, and she couldn't stop laughing.

Meng Xuanchen looked up at her and said, "Why do you have to force yourself to laugh? You can cry if you don't want to laugh."

Zhu Ya's smile faded: "How do you know I don't want to laugh? I really want to laugh."

Her frivolous tone made people uncomfortable.

Meng Xuanchen looked at her.

He never understood her.

He never even came close to her life.

"Want to hear my story?"

She looked at him with a smile but the smile did not reach her eyes.

Every day she looks interested in everything and her smile never stops.

But her smile didn't even reach her eyes.

He had noticed early on that she was always forcing herself to smile.

"You don't have to say it if you don't want to."

Zhu Ya didn't say anything but just patted the seat next to her.

Meng Xuanchen sat next to her and felt a heaviness on his left shoulder.

"Let me lean on it for a bit, thank you."

"it is good."

Zhu Ya looked ahead with empty eyes, and everything returned to what it was five years ago.

"My father is a city government employee, as is my mother, my brother, my aunt, my cousin, etc. All my relatives are in politics and are in J City. Even if they are not in J City, they hold important positions elsewhere."

Zhu Ya continued, "My family has been involved in politics for generations. There are many people in my family who can participate in voting and other things."

She moved her head to get the hair out of the way.

"They are all very capable, but I am not. I don't want to go into politics, and I don't want to be with them."

"When I was eighteen, a little over a month after my birthday, I was kidnapped. It was just like the plot in the novel, I was kidnapped, haha."

She said all this with forced calmness, but the trembling in her body was transmitted to him.

He can feel it.

"Zhu Ya, stop talking."

He didn't dare to listen.

Zhu Ya continued to mutter, "I was caught right after I left school. I was not given a chance to show my abilities. It was really annoying. If I were the person I am now, I would definitely not be caught."

Meng Xuanchen turned his head away and didn't dare to look at her. He was afraid to see her face covered with tears.

She didn't cry. She didn't want to shed tears over that kind of thing anymore.

"Well, after I was captured, I was locked up for the entire day without eating. My parents didn't notice that I was gone. Isn't that funny? My parents didn't even know that their child was missing."

"They were very busy, they were busy dealing with their work, they didn't realize it until the kidnappers called them, and that's when they panicked."

Zhu Ya continued to smile.

She is very beautiful. When she doesn't smile, people will step back. But when she smiles, she is very charming, like a fairy hidden in her body, alluring and charming.

She was always beautiful.

While other little girls were worried about acne on their faces, her face was clean.

When other girls were secretly in love with her, there were guys pursuing her in every class.

She has good grades, good looks and a good family background.

But they were all so busy that no one was allowed to go home. When she strongly resisted the nanny, they thought she had grown up and just let her do whatever she wanted.

And then that happened.

"The kidnapper was a man of few ambitions. He only asked for three million. But my parents thought the kidnapper would not do anything, so they decided to call the police."

"But the kidnappers also said that they would kill her if she called the police, but they thought that wouldn't happen. They wouldn't kill her."

Meng Xuanchen was so depressed by her words that he couldn't breathe. He didn't dare to imagine whether his heart was bleeding when he heard these words. Why did she have to hear these words?

She was just a child when she was kidnapped because her family had too many enemies in the political world.

"The kidnappers waited a long time for the police to arrive. They were smart and had already moved me to a dilapidated house in the countryside. It was very dirty, messy and dilapidated."

At this moment, Meng Xuanchen wanted to hold her tightly in his arms.

"As soon as I got there, they beat me up. They slapped me and made my face swollen. They poured water on me in the winter and locked me outside in a chicken coop. It was really cold then."

Her eyes were moist, and everything she had experienced before seemed to be vivid in her mind. There was no one around the small shabby house, her mouth was blocked, and her body was tied up with ropes.

The chicken coop stinks, very stinks.

The makeup on her face was also smudged.

She didn't know how long any makeup could protect her. When she was in junior high school, she was isolated by her classmates because she was too beautiful. At that time, the nanny said that if she used makeup to cover up her beauty, no one could hurt her.

She kept it covered.

Heavy bangs, messy hair, clumsy behavior, and bad manners.

She hid for a long time, and she was glad that she did. The kidnappers didn't know how beautiful she was. She couldn't imagine what would happen if they knew.

She told herself again and again that someone would save her, someone would save her.

She was locked in the chicken coop and had no food to eat. If she had any, it was only the leftover soup and rice. The vegetables, rice, and soup were mixed together like something to be fed to animals.

But isn't that what is fed to animals? She is an animal in their eyes.

Still a beast that won't resist.

"I was locked up in the chicken pen for more than a week before they let me out. When I was released, they let me talk. When I heard the voices over there, I suddenly felt that it would be better for me to die. I wouldn't have to be a burden to them."

"When they saw that I didn't say anything, they kept hitting me to make me speak. Slapping me was no longer enough for them, so they started playing cards. Whoever lost would punch or kick me. They were having a lot of fun, but I was the only one who wasn't happy."

She was really unhappy at that time.

How can I be happy when my whole body aches after a whole day?

She only got a little bit of food every day, sometimes even nothing.

"They hit me but I didn't say anything. They were very happy when they received the call from my parents who were willing to give them money. They discussed what to buy with the money, where to live, and where to find a wife. But they also noticed me in the corner without makeup on my face."

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