"And then I went to look for you, but I couldn’t find you." Hua Hua snorted, "Then I continued begging, but that lady who helped bathe told I was a boy and even bought boy’s clothes to wear. I thought she was lying to . That lady had a son, and he said I had a willy and wasn’t a girl, that wearing braids was really creepy. The lady even cut my hair short like yours."
The more Hua Hua thought about it, the deeper the mories beca. Those distant mories slowly beca clear: "Later, when the money ran out and I still couldn’t find you, I started begging alone again. Anyway, after that, everything was just alone, everything by myself. I don’t know how long it was before I t my brother, and then we begged together. But my brother was really amazing. We didn’t beg for long before he taught that people need to be self-reliant, not rely on others’ charity, that even as kids, we needed to understand this truth, and that we had to learn how to earn our own money."
Hua Hua abruptly stopped talking, pressing her lips tightly: "Did you really search for everywhere?"
Hua Hua let out a particularly heavy snort: "Hmph, don’t lie to , abandoning just ans abandoning , don’t make excuses for yourself!"
"Is this really how fate plays with us?" Ling Yin’s eyes grew slightly moist: "I was taken to the hospital, and you were taken ho by a sanitation worker. We just couldn’t find each other. Later you turned into a boy, looking all clean and tidy; maybe even if I t you on so street, I might not be able to recognize you."
Ling Yin said the last sentence almost to herself.
Listening to Hua Hua, he thought he might have seen Little Chu at so street corner, only his little sister Chu was a little beggar girl with two braids in tattered clothes, while the one standing on the street might be Little Chu, the short-haired brother. Could this world be any more ridiculous?
As Ling Yin spoke, tears surprisingly rolled down his eyes: "I really searched everywhere for you, day after day, street after street, for many days, staking out in the alleys every night until I truly couldn’t find you anymore and was sent to the orphanage."
"Even at the orphanage, I tried countless tis to escape and search the streets for you, persisting for half a year, but sadly I never found you. After that, I t a benefactor in my life, he was called Tian Junhao. He took in, nurtured , and told , to protect soone, you first need to beco very strong yourself, otherwise it’s just empty talk."
"Over these years, following him, I truly understood what it ans to go from nothing to sothing, from weak to strong. He is the strongest person I’ve ever t in my life. No, he is the emperor, an unmatched king!" Ling Yin, when talking about Tian Junhao, felt endless admiration and respect, but more so, nostalgia. Ling Yin put away his sense of admiration and gently stroked Hua Hua’s hair: "Little Chu, I always thought you were a girl. For all these years, I’ve been searching for a girl, never thinking I should be looking for a boy. I never thought of abandoning you, I just couldn’t find you. Really, please believe !"
"How could I possibly abandon you? I promised Uncle Yuan that I would protect you, love you all my life, not let you suffer, not let you be bullied!" He hugged Hua Hua tightly: "When I saw you back then, I didn’t dare to guess you were Little Chu, but then again, I felt a damn sense of familiarity and closeness when I saw you. When I found out you were Little Chu, I was shocked, almost thinking you had undergone a gender change surgery. You have no idea how stunned I was. I was really scared stiff."
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