The moment consciousness returned, Xia Zhi felt overwhelming pain, a burning sensation in her throat, and pain coming from every part of her body.
Even breathing was painful.
Even breathing had to be done cautiously; her gaze fell on the woman in the bed, the source of her suffering.
If she couldn’t hold back her tears, what followed would be being picked up and brutally slammed, and finally smothered with a quilt.
No matter how she struggled, it was all meaningless. The air would become increasingly thin, and she’d stare wide-eyed, dying with regrets.
Eventually discovered by that woman’s husband, they would take her to a pond ten kilometers away, dig a pit there. Then bury her...
The smell of soil, the scent of decay. It was so clear, she’s back.
Her mouth bore a smile, faintly, yet there was no warmth in her eyes; no matter how painful, it seemed there’s nothing unbearable.
For what’s about to occur, she felt clearly her desire to survive.
Hence, she couldn’t make any noise, not even a sound.
Xia Zhi cautiously looked at her hands, not a single good spot, wearing tattered clothes, just lying on the ground.
Beside her was a table, if she made any sound, she’d be brutally thrown off from the table, again and again.
What could she do, how could she leave this room?
Young as she was, she slowly, gently, gently. Crawled towards the door...
The woman in the bed made a sound.
It was a murmur in her sleep, small.
A sign of waking up soon.
Xia Zhi held her breath, trying hard to make herself invisible, even making her breathing as minimal as possible.
If she wanted to survive, she couldn’t, couldn’t be discovered.
The passage of time became extraordinarily slow, each second stretched infinitely.
She was relentlessly struggling between life and death.
Her life and death seemed at this moment, given to fate, yet... Xia Zhi didn’t believe in fate.
She slowly crawled, almost there,
Finally, she didn’t know how much time had passed, her hand touched the door.
She used all her strength, stood up all at once, and dashed out.
Slammed the door shut fiercely, ran down quickly.
Only by running down could she find hope to survive.
Can’t stop, absolutely can’t stop.
The wind roared past her ears. She thought she had been running for a long time.
Finally, she saw the gate, she ran over quickly, it was just across the road.
That was the police station, only by getting there could she escape the fate of death.
She ran over swiftly.
Suddenly, one or two cars came roaring...
Xia Zhi was terrified, realizing this time she wasn’t beaten to death by her biological mother but would be hit to death instead,
"What are you doing? Whose child is running on the street!"
At the moment Xia Zhi’s heart stopped beating.
Xia Zhi dared not delay, quickly ran to the opposite side, and the driver wanted to chase after her.
"What are you doing!"
Suddenly a car stopped opposite, and a child in a suit stepped out.
"Why, do you want to kidnap the child?"
The driver was a bit speechless, "What, that child is running around on her own."
The boy snorted coldly, and as he turned, he found that the child was gone.
Xia Zhi ran towards the police station, closer and closer, almost there.
Suddenly, she fell to the ground. As if all her strength was drained.
She had exhausted all her strength, suddenly had none left.
Is she still going to die?
She lay on the ground, crawled towards the police station, she must crawl there.
Xia Zhi heard the child’s voice again.
Soon, she was gently picked up by that boy.
"She’s so small, suffered such severe injuries, where does she want to go?"
Xia Zhi ignored him, her gaze fixed intensely on the police station. She couldn’t die, couldn’t faint, must get to the police station.
"She should want to go to the police station, take her there."
Another gentle voice sounded.
Xia Zhi was taken to the police station, the moment the people at the station saw Xia Zhi, they gasped.
What kind of child she was, covered in blood, riddled with wounds, those wounds cut by glass shards earlier.
She stubbornly looked at them, like seeing her last hope.
She was covered with wounds.
"What’s wrong with you, child!"
They rushed forward and took Xia Zhi to the hospital.
Everyone who saw Xia Zhi at that moment shed tears.
The boy who brought Xia Zhi made a record and left, before leaving, he looked at Xia Zhi’s filthy face, eyes unseen, and spoke.
"I’ll come see you tomorrow."
Xia Zhi thought, better not. I’m not sure if there will be a tomorrow.
Though it pained her, they still needed to make a record, and the police station specially arranged for a female police officer to record.
The female officer’s eyes were particularly red, choking back tears as she held the pen. "Little sister, where are your mom and dad?"
Upon hearing the words mom and dad, Xia Zhi shrank into a ball, her eyes filled with deep fear and despair, her eyes turned into dead waters, as if seeing her own death.
She was scared, in terror.
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"How could anyone be scared of their mom and dad?" The female officer was somewhat puzzled.
But when Xia Zhi heard those two words, she became especially collapsed, curling herself up, as if trying desperately to hide herself.
She shook her head continuously, tears flowed from her eyes, snot came out, mouth firmly biting her lower lip. Struggling not to make a sound.
She was like a desperate little beast.
"Could it be turning her into this is..."
The senior officer dared not ask further, only dragged the female officer outside.
"I think this won’t do, let’s get a psychologist to come over."
"Okay." The female officer also fell silent, tears streaming continuously.
Only Xia Zhi was left in the room.
But she didn’t change her posture, at the moment Xia Zhi’s heart was still tense.
Now in terms of plot, although some parts were changed, this is just the beginning.
Some parents are great, but some parents are unworthy of being human, the original owner’s parents abused Xia Zhi, whenever life wasn’t smooth, they’d hit and scold.