Chapter 1382 - I Only Want You (1/2)

“What else would they mean? Why don’t you know anything?”

She said while walking, “Because I’ve been locked up ever since I was young. I didn’t have much of a chance to be exposed to the outside world.”

“Why were you locked up?”

She was candid about it and replied calmly, “Ever since I could remember, I had been locked up by a middle-aged woman and beaten up in all ways by her. It was only last year that I managed to escape. Then, I got captured back again and brought to a cliff where she tried to burn me to death. She said that not long after I was born, I became a sacrificial offering. It was my mother who sold me because my father had abandoned her.”

Tang Zhijing asked with a grave expression, “Then how did you get together with Pei Yi?”

“He was the one who saved me. He even saved me twice in total. I willingly became his woman.”

His gaze toward her carried some pity as he could not tell at all that she had been through so much suffering.

After she had finished speaking, Jing Chu remarked sulkily, “Pei Yi probably treats me as a prostitute, right? He doesn’t let me give birth for him as well.”

Tang Zhijing did not know how to answer her and eventually replied, “A man like him wouldn’t possibly have feelings for you because there are plenty of women for him to choose from. Isn’t his wife pregnant already?”

Jing Chu didn’t make a sound anymore.

Only when they reached the neighborhood did she finally say, “I really want to go somewhere nobody can find me and hide myself there.”

Tang Zhijing did not reply to her, and the two each headed home in their separate ways.

Pei Yi was back.

He sat in the living room with a cigarette between his fingers, looking rather moody.

He asked when he saw her enter the house, “Who’s the man who came back with you?”

“Someone who also does volunteer work. He’s been teaching English at the orphanage for two years already.”

“Why do you look ghastly?”

“Nothing much,” she answered.

“I see that you’ve been upset these few days. Have you been overthinking?”

Jing Chu looked at him and replied, “Indeed. I’ve been thinking too much these days, so I’ve had a lot of troubles on my mind.”

“Is there any point in overthinking?”

“No.”

“Then don’t think about it.”

Jing Chu was rendered speechless by him and did not say a word more.

What she least expected was that after she had satisfied Pei Yi and he had left, he would never come back again.

Nor did he call her or send her any text messages.

She naturally did not ask him why he had not gone to visit her.

Jing Chu had told herself that when she realized her place.

She could not expect anything from him.

Every day was spent peacefully for Jing Chu, and when she did not go to the orphanage, she would stay at home to read and learn words. That way, life did not feel too mundane to her.

If Pei Yi’s mother and Tian Tian did not visit, her peaceful days would have gone on like that.

The day those two came was half a month since the last time Pei Yi came to visit her.

It was during the midst of a stuffy and humid April.

The sky was exceptionally gloomy with dark clouds enveloping the sky. It looked like it was about to rain.

Jing Chu was wearing a clean, colorful dress. She did not need to do volunteer work at the orphanage this day, so she had stayed at home.