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Chapter 343 Her Inner Conflict

She didn't answer Lu Tingnian's question, but instead thought of that rainy night long ago.

She was seven years old that year. Her mother had passed away less than three months earlier, and her father had remarried. The adults were happily preparing to welcome the new bride, but she, the child left behind by the first wife, was seen as an obstacle. On this joyous day, she was driven out of the house, wearing only a thin shirt in the damp and cold weather.

Fortunately, she had a little white dog by her side at that time. It was the last birthday gift her mother, who was bedridden and on her deathbed, bought for her when she was seven years old.

But after her mother passed away, she and her little white dog became homeless and destitute.

That day, she watched as her father welcomed the flamboyantly dressed woman into her house.

They say you only hear the laughter of the new and never the tears of the old; she was thus isolated in another world.

In that world, there was only her and Xiaobai.

The wedding was lively from morning till night, and she was hungry all day.

So that night, starving, she once again embarked on a journey to find food.

Just as she was worrying about not being able to find food, a young man covered in injuries came into view.

He appeared to be being chased, his panicked gaze filled with fear.

Moreover, when she saw him, he was clearly exhausted and could collapse at any moment.

She doesn't know where she got the courage, but when the young man was about to collapse, she dragged him into the alley.

The alley was dark and narrow; only a child's body could fit through it.

Perhaps those who caught up with them were unfamiliar with the surroundings, or perhaps the box was too dark and cramped; in any case, they were not discovered that night.

Instead, she hid until the group left before she led the young man out.

Afterwards, she brought her weak and exhausted brother to her front door, but unfortunately, the door was locked and no matter how much she knocked, it remained closed.

So that night, she took the young man to an old, uninhabited house.

She had spent many of her homeless nights there.

However, in the middle of the night, the young man, who was still in pain, suddenly developed a fever for no apparent reason.

At seven years old, she had no idea how to take care of a patient. There was no money or food, only cold raindrops outside.

She remembered that when she was sick, her mother would always feed her a bowl of hot soup noodles, and every time she finished that bowl of soup noodles, she would miraculously get better.

So that night, she dragged her hungry body home, but she crawled back through a dog hole with Xiaobai.

She quietly slipped into the kitchen, cooked a bowl of noodles, and brought it to her little brother.

However, what she didn't know was that the noodles were undercooked.

After the young man ate that bowl of noodles, he felt much better and even asked her name.

She told the boy that her name was Qiao Luo and her friend's name was Xiao Bai.

Later, they spent three days together in that dilapidated house where no one lived, and during those three days, she treated him as her best friend.

Those three days were the happiest three days for her since her mother's death, but happy days are always short-lived.

That morning, she had just secretly taken some food from home and was about to happily deliver it to him when she encountered a group of men in black wearing sunglasses at the alley entrance.

The men in black surrounded the entire alleyway entrance, preventing anyone from entering or leaving, and she was also kept outside.

It wasn't until she saw him being led out of the house by the group of men in black and put into a luxury car that she realized they were there to take him home.

She couldn't bear to part with him and frantically chased after the car, calling him "little brother."

He heard her voice as she leaned out of the car window.

"Go back, I will come back to find you, you must wait for me."

This was the only sentence he left for her before the car drove out of sight.

She believed him, and for the next two weeks, she waited for him at the alley entrance almost every day, from sunrise to sunset, but he never showed up.

At that time, she didn't know what a promise was, but she knew he had lied to her.

From that moment on, she hated being deceived.

Her thoughts slowly returned, and she looked at Lu Tingnian in front of her. Perhaps that incident had more or less influenced her judgment on this matter.

But she couldn't possibly tell him the reason.

Thinking this, she said, "Deceiving others is wrong at any time, regardless of my experience. I hope you understand."

In other words, even if that incident hadn't happened back then, she would never forgive such deception.

Because this behavior is only related to the deceiver himself.

Hearing her answer, Lu Tingnian remained silent. He had originally wanted to find out the reason so that he could find a breakthrough, but he did not expect that she would not answer directly at all.

Does that mean he can assume that she actually has some unresolved issues?

But before he could ask again, Qiao Luo spoke up: