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Nightmare?

The images suddenly became clearer in He Zhilan’s mind.

It was a three-story western-style house, she in a small western dress, alone, gazing at the quiet house, sneakily tiptoeing to open the iron gate, looking at the bustling street; she was extremely happy, feeling lonely at home by herself, wanting to find a friend to accompany each other, to share her snacks and toys, even her pretty little dresses.

She walked joyfully along the road, the street teeming with people, each seemingly busy with their own thing, when suddenly a kitten caught her attention, utterly adorable, she really liked it.

So, she followed the kitten, chasing it to places even she didn’t recognize.

The surroundings were unfamiliar, she didn’t remember ever being in such a place, with dilapidated low houses around, and people quarreling in the alley, each shout fiercer than the last, she was scared.

She couldn’t find where the kitten had gone, she wanted to go home, but could not find the way back, standing there alone and crying in fear.

"And then?" Dr. Qin faintly felt that he was about to uncover the root of He Zhilan’s trauma.

"Suddenly, a lady came over and spoke to me, she wasn’t dressed nicely, in drab clothing, her hair in a big, sloppy braid, and she had an unpleasant smell of smoke, but she told me she could take me home to my parents.

I followed her, but she lied! She didn’t know my parents; she just grabbed me and put me in a car, the car smelled so foul I wanted to vomit.

I kept crying, and she kept cursing at me, hitting me.

I said I wanted to go back to find my parents and not stay with her, yet she told others I was her disobedient daughter, that’s why she was hitting and scolding me. "

Listening to this, Dr. Qin didn’t speak.

He Zhilan was immersed in her own memories; at this moment, many things that she usually couldn’t remember clearly began to surface bit by bit in her mind, recalling almost forgotten people and events, and at this moment, He Zhilan was like returning to that year in her memories.

"She locked me in a wooden house, dirty and broken, with bugs and rats, I was very scared, terribly afraid the rats would come eat my toes. She wouldn’t give me food or water, I felt horrible, I didn’t know what she fed me, then, I just felt very sleepy.

Later, she took me on a train, I don’t know how long we were on the train; we also got on a bus, a tractor, those times, it seemed, every time I woke up, we were on some vehicle, later I found out she was a human trafficker, she wanted to sell me. "

"But because I was a girl, many people didn’t like me, for a long time she couldn’t sell me, would lose her temper at me, hitting me with a clothes hanger, spitting on me, cursing me as an unsellable loss.

After a long time, one day, she suddenly took me away happily, and then, handed me over to some traffickers called Sanposi.

Sanposi was also a trafficker, also a villain, she also cursed me, didn’t feed me, later, Sanposi sold me to a very poor countryside as a daughter. "

"And then?" Dr. Qin was profoundly shocked; he truly hadn’t anticipated that He Teng’s wife had such a childhood.