"That year, it was also when I t that person..."
Feng Huang's face turned pale as if she recalled so unpleasant mory.
She tried to force a smile and said, "Oppa, you might not have experienced that kind of situation."
"That winter, my brother fell seriously ill, and he needed to see a doctor. I carried him to the hospital, but was imdiately chased away by the doctor there."
"After all, I was just a beggar, not soone who looked like they could afford dical expenses."
"Having no other choice to raise money, I could only hit the streets to steal..."
"Maybe it was my bad luck, I got caught red-handed. Oppa, what do you think, how would they deal with a fourteen-year-old girl caught in the act?"
Looking at Feng Huang's questioning gaze, Xu Fan could not help but give a bitter smile.
He began to understand why Feng Huang was reluctant to ntion her past.
Unlike her peers, Feng Huang never experienced the warmth of this world. She endured hunger, disdain, and all of the world's indifference.
Perhaps that's why she was unwilling to trust others.
"A fourteen-year-old girl can already tell beauty from ugliness. Perhaps it was my misfortune that the person I stole from was not a good person either."
"At the ti, they wanted to sell into a brothel. Oppa, do you know how I felt then?"
Feng Huang wiped her tears and said with a bitter smile, "I really felt that God was not fair. Why does suffering always fall on ?"
"My brother was still waiting for to raise money to cure his illness. How could I let them take away?"
"Even against four burly n, I had no choice but to resist."
Clenching her fists, Feng Huang said with a bitter smile, "Maybe they didn't expect that a little beggar could have such courage. At that ti, I actually managed to kill soone with a stone."
"Oppa, am I not incredible?"
"..."
Looking at Feng Huang's forced smile, Xu Fan found himself at a loss for words.
Perhaps God was indeed too unfair to her.
"Alright, even if one was dead, there were still three left. How could a fourteen-year-old girl be so powerful? It was just that..."
At this point, Feng Huang paused, sniffled, and then said, "That person appeared."
"Watching those three guys fall under his dagger, at that mont, I thought that maybe, for ... God wasn't so bad after all."
Watching Feng Huang wiping away tears, Xu Fan couldn't help but let out a sigh.
The person she was referring to must have been the creditor she spoke of.
If it weren't for his appearance, Feng Huang's life might have taken a totally different path.
"Because of him, I was saved, and he even cured my brother's illness."
If life indeed has turning points, Feng Huang felt that hers shifted from darkness to light in the year she turned fourteen.
"Since then, my brother and I were taken out of the country by him."
"Over five years, he taught and my brother many things. Because of him, my brother and I no longer starved."
"Oppa, tell , do I owe him a lot? In that mont, I treated him like a father. Even if he wanted to die right then, I wouldn't blink."
If it weren't for that man, Feng Huang would never have been able to erge from the Abyss. Their relationship was indeed both teacher and father.
Thinking of Old Immortal and himself, Xu Fan could indeed understand Feng Huang's feelings at the mont.
However, looking at Feng Huang, Xu Fan suddenly frowned.
She had a brother, a fact he had only just learned today; she had never ntioned it before.
Xu Fan couldn't help but ask, "Then, where is your brother now?"
"..."
Hearing Xu Fan ask about this, Feng Huang's whole body trembled uncontrollably!
The tears she had held back uncontrollably stread down.
"He... he..."
mories surged in her mind, and Feng Huang trembled all over, sobbing as she said, "He was killed by that person... killed..."
"Why?"
Hearing Feng Huang's explanation, Xu Fan couldn't help feeling sowhat puzzled.
If that guy had saved Feng Huang and her brother, why would he go on to kill Feng Huang's brother?
Wasn't that superfluous?
"My brother was too kind; he didn't want to kill for him, so..."
Although grateful that the man had changed their lives, her brother's character was always too kind.
Thinking of the day she heard him tell her this news, Feng Huang shook her head with a bitter smile.
"If it wasn't for taking care of my brother, I couldn't have made it to fourteen."
"Brother, he personally gave hope for living, but at the sa ti, he destroyed the hope for living. Tell , should I hate him? Or should I be thankful?"
"..."
This question was truly difficult to answer. Xu Fan looked at Feng Huang, montarily at a loss for words.
"I could never forgive him for my brother's death, so, I proposed leaving."
"He agreed but set a condition, telling to do three things for him in the future as repaynt of the debt."
Having said this, everything that needed to be explained was explained.
Feng Huang wiped away her tears and said, "With my brother gone, I couldn't find any aning in living, and thought about just dying as well."
"But I'm soone who doesn't like owing others, so I've been waiting for him to call on to repay my debt."
"After that, I t you."
Looking at Xu Fan, Feng Huang couldn't help but smile.
"To be honest, Brother, when I first saw you, I didn't believe in you, but for so reason, I always felt you were different from other people, so I stayed."
"Now, looking back, you truly are different from the others."
Watching Feng Huang's smiling face, Xu Fan couldn't help but shake his head.
Her experiences were indeed harder than those of most people.
After the darkness, she finally saw the light, but the person who gave her the light also destroyed her hope at the sa ti.
Hearing this, Xu Fan largely understood the three things that person wanted Feng Huang to do.
The first was to steal sothing Xia Hengzhou had left in a bronze box.
The second was to kill himself.
The third was to retrieve the new energy technology from Professor Sun's hands.
Feng Huang had not completed any of these tasks for him.
With that guy's thods, he probably wouldn't just let it go.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Fan stood up and walked over to Feng Huang.
"Brother, you... what are you doing..."
As Xu Fan walked towards her, he directly embraced her in his arms.
Feng Huang lay in his arms, so tense that her body stiffened.
Slling his scent, she couldn't help but blush.
"Feng Huang, listen to carefully."
Holding Feng Huang tightly, Xu Fan said with a serious face, "I don't care what kind of suffering you have gone through in the past, but no matter what, you must not lose hope in this world."
"Starting today, even if the sky falls down, I, Xu Fan, will hold it up for you."
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