What Xu Momo left unsaid was that the reason she had run away in the first place was to find Qi Sili and tell him all of her love and longing. Yet she had no idea the consequences of this rash impulse would turn out like this. Still, there was no point in telling him now; it would only needlessly add to his guilt.
Xu Momo felt utterly exhausted in both body and mind. Lying on the soft mattress, she drifted into a dream.
She dreamed once again of when she was ten years old. Wanting to play a prank on her father, she had hidden away in a corner, only to be drugged by human traffickers and sold to the State of Qi. There was nothing to eat or drink—only relentless beatings, scoldings, and endless darkness.
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