"If I hear you calling him 'Father,' and if he is indeed your legal guardian, then even if you brought the police here and they watched him beat you to death with their own eyes, he still wouldn't have to pay with his life."
The little girl didn't understand the law well enough. She didn't know that even with ironclad proof that he had beaten her to death, he would not have to pay the ultimate price. Just because the man was the one she called 'Father'—her so-called legal guardian—a murderer could go unpunished.
"Why?" Sheng Xia's words were clearly beyond the little girl's comprehension. She stood there, stunned, and only after a long moment did she look at Sheng Xia with dazed eyes, asking with a sob.
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