3 Illusion of Being Free (2/2)

Li Xiuying:”I seriously need to go shopping.”

Li Xiuying didn't mind what little she had but sometimes it was nice having a few extra things you wanted instead of simply just what you needed.

She put on a basic white underwear set, followed by a pair of blue jeans and black long sleeved t-shirt.

Li Xiuying switched on her laptop to do some online shopping. She first looked up ”must have beauty products.” She decided that she would go shopping for clothes in-store.

Li Xiuying had put several items in her basket and was checking out. When she finally recalled that her uncle had all her bank and credit cards! She has no money!!!

Her uncle made her open various bank accounts and credit cards and then kept them for himself. He even kept her online log-ins a secret. His excuse was that she was too irresponsible to handle such large sums of money.

In the past she would always have to ask permission to use a debit card and even then her uncle would type in the card details and wouldn't let her be present.

Li Xiuying sighed: ”I'm a 23 year old woman who has the lives of people in the palm of my hand yet I can't even buy face cream on my own. It's time for me to take charge of my own life.”

Li Xiuying grabbed her rucksack and put in some documents, ID and her hoody. She also grabbed a few protein bars and a bottle of water from her desk.

Li Xiuying turned her phone off and put it in a desk drawer. It had been bugged by Sun Yu. She only came to know this several years later when she inadvertently overheard a conversation between her uncle and Sun Yu.

Sun Yu had bugged her phone so that all calls and messages were recorded and sent to her uncle. There was also a tracking device in her phone. Her uncle had given 10000 Yuan to Sun Yu and promised there would be more if he kept working for him.

Li Xiuying felt a sharp pain in her chest: 'Without realizing anything I had been living in a cage, it was large enough that I couldn't see the metal bars enclosing me and thought I was free. '

She shoved her laptop & charger and hard drive in her bag. Her uncle never thought to do anything to her laptop because she would share all her work with her cousin anyway.

Li Xiuying put on her Dr. Martens and went to open her window. She leaned over and reached for the large black pipe on the side and slowly began descending. She had been a good climber from when she was young.

Li Xiuying reached the ground. She kept her back to the wall and she slowly followed it around to the garden at back of the house. She started sprinting towards the fence on the far side.