Because of this woman, each time she looked at her, it was as if she wanted to throw her away, eyes filled with disdain.
What could a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl fail to see?
Such a gaze was nothing but disdain and disgust.
Thus, Xiao Qin was never at ease with her.
Moreover, when it truly came time to leave, Xiao Qin discovered that they weren’t taking a plane to go abroad, nor a ship, but rather, they were planning to smuggle themselves out.
They not only had to change their names and dress in boys’ clothes, but also had to cut their hair short. On top of that, they had to do it under the cover of night. Consequently, Xiao Qin refused to agree and made a scene with Lin Qinghuan.
Lin Qinghuan hadn’t expected this young girl to be so troublesome.
And she lost the tiny bit of patience she had left.
Wang Xiu was already dead, no longer of any use.
There was no reason for her to continue raising her daughter.
She had taken her out of that small courtyard only to put on a show for Wang Xiu’s subordinates.
Now that those subordinates had dispersed to different places,
there was no further need to keep up the act.
But Lin Qinghuan couldn’t possibly send Wang Xiu’s daughter to her father.
Because that would be the most unsafe option.
Perhaps many secrets would be exposed in the end.
For Lin Qinghuan, that was absolutely impermissible.
So, she ordered her men to knock Xiao Qin out and, after smuggling her out of the country, sold her to a casino in Xidu.
When Xiao Qin woke up, she was surrounded by strangers and an alien environment.
And by strangers akin to demons.
The torment she endured there was beyond description, especially for a fifteen-year-old girl.
It was far too cruel.
After surviving several hellish nights, she realized she had been sold by Lin Qinghuan to be a plaything for men.
The extraordinary torture was too much for Xiao Qin to bear.
But when she sought death, she was instead brutally beaten.
It was there that she unexpectedly encountered the woman from last year who had sought help in her backyard.
That woman was engaged in the same activities as her.
But clearly, she had grown accustomed to the workings of the place.
Upon seeing Xiao Qin, the woman laughed maniacally, claiming that it was divine retribution—karma.
Then she told Xiao Qin all the venomous deeds her mother had done.
In that moment, Xiao Qin finally grew up.
She realized that she had ended up in the same plight as the woman her mother had sold.
Yet her mother was already dead.
And now she had to pay for the evil acts her mother had committed.
Xiao Qin only wished she had died along with her mother.
To spare herself from suffering in this mortal hell.
Xiao Qin was a clever girl.
She knew her life was ruined, but she refused to give in.
More than half of the women here had been sold into it.
And so, Xiao Qin and a woman named Ah Juan planned for a month.
They finally grasped an opportunity to escape.
At this juncture, Xiao Qin wanted Ah Juan to escape first and seek help from the local Chinese people.
Because this wasn’t the country’s capital,
but a city far from the capital and home to some of the worst crimes.
Sometimes, even the local police were helpless against these criminals.
So the only option was to ask the Chinese for help.
And at that critical moment, Ah Juan finally gave Xiao Qin the chance to escape.
Xiao Qin was young and clever...