After the teacher appreciation banquet, the family took Qingqing back to Zhuancheng.
Yue Qingqing opened the rear door and was about to get in the car, but her gaze suddenly shifted to the distance.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up, don’t catch a cold." Zhang Ying waved at her daughter from inside the car.
Yue Qingqing, however, closed the car door behind her.
"Mom, you sit down first, I think I saw someone I know."
"Who?" Zhang Ying rolled down the window and looked in that direction.
She then saw a girl who looked like she was running for her life, gasping for air.
She was covered in sweat and looked terribly disheveled.
"A classmate of yours?"
Seeing that the girl was about Qingqing’s age, Zhang Ying was about to open the door to say hello when Yue Qingqing stopped her.
"Not really someone I know well, don’t get out."
Seeing her daughter’s indifferent expression, Zhang Ying realized that she probably didn’t get along well with the girl.
Ye Chunxiao ran desperately, the wind whipping against her bones, causing a slight pain.
Just thinking about those men’s methods made Ye Chunxiao shudder.
Was it just for stealing his watch?
He’s so rich, can’t he just do a good deed and help her out? Why so cruel!
After the college entrance exam, it was no surprise that Ye Chunxiao failed.
Her family had scrimped and saved to send her to school, but in the end, her scores were among the lowest in the entire school.
Ye Chunxiao wanted to repeat a year, but her family didn’t agree, wanting her to find a job soon.
A high school diploma wasn’t too low a qualification in this era, so finding work shouldn’t be impossible.
Reluctantly, Ye Chunxiao took a job at a café, as she could read and count, she was hired as a cashier.
The pay wasn’t bad, and the work wasn’t too much.
But it was far more exhausting than the idle life she had in school.
Ye Chunxiao felt like her feet would swell from standing at the counter all day, and customers often complained about her poor service attitude, which got her scolded by her boss.
Unable to bear it, Ye Chunxiao decided to compensate herself by secretly taking some money from the cash register every now and then.
But the boss was very shrewd, and he discovered it within a few days.
He immediately flew into a rage and threatened to call the police.
After Ye Chunxiao’s desperate pleading, the café owner demanded compensation and then fired her, ultimately not sending her to the police station.
After this incident, Ye Chunxiao was low on money, and the money she initially got from Zhuang Rouhui was running out.
Her family stopped giving her living expenses too, telling her to earn her own money.
This made Ye Chunxiao feel the panic of living hand to mouth.
Later, she heard that the pay for working at a nightclub was significantly higher, so she decided to give it a try.
Although she was often harassed by customers, she also frequently received tips, so it was a win-win situation.
But greed begets greed.
One day, taking advantage of a customer’s drunkenness, Ye Chunxiao stole an expensive watch from him.
The customer had considerable resources and tracked the unique serial number on the watch, eventually tracing it back to Ye Chunxiao.
Only then did Ye Chunxiao realize that the watch she had sold for a few hundred yuan was worth several hundred thousand.
Since stealing from the café last time, she had specifically researched the law.
For such a particularly large amount, she could face a sentence of more than three years.
Ye Chunxiao panicked, but the other party did not call the police.
Instead, he sent some men to teach her a lesson.
After being caught, Ye Chunxiao was beaten several times, and those men discussed which of her organs could be sold for money.
Terrified, Ye Chunxiao felt worse than death.
She finally found a chance to escape during a shift change.
But after only running a few hundred meters, she heard a piercing siren behind her, obviously discovered.
Ye Chunxiao could only run for her life, hoping to escape those demons.
"Yue Qingqing?" Ye Chunxiao suddenly saw a familiar figure, thinking she was hallucinating.
The next moment, her face lit up with joy, and she immediately ran towards her.
"Help me, Qingqing, I beg you, just this one time."