My Treasure

"Roumei..." Zhou's Mother looked extremely pained. Seeing her daughter so resistant to her, her heart felt as if it were being stabbed with a knife. No one knew how she had managed through the years of losing her daughter. She hardly ever had a good night's sleep. Whenever she closed her eyes, she could hear her daughter's calls in her ears.

Mom, I'm cold.

Mom, I'm hungry.

She worried that her daughter didn't have enough to eat or wear. From the snippets of information she got from Chen's Father and Chen's Mother, she learned that her daughter had really had a terrible time. She was even locked up and treated like livestock.

Thinking of this, Zhou's Mother felt that even breathing was painful. The self - blame in her heart tightened around her heart every moment.

"Dear daughter, come home with mom, okay? We'll live in a big villa, have delicious meals... Mom will take you on trips and go shopping every day... Let's forget about those unhappy things, okay?" Zhou's Mother said in a trembling voice.

Zhou's Father didn't seem good at expressing himself, but his eyes were also red.

However, when Bai Yuyou heard the words "go home", her resistance became even more intense. It seemed that every pore on her body was rejecting the idea. She tightly grabbed the clothes in front of Ye Shuang and her body began to tremble.

"Dear daughter, tell me what you want. Mom can satisfy you as long as you come home with me."

"No... don't!" The young girl rarely raised her voice. Her words were like a sharp sword stabbing into Zhou's Mother's heart.

Zhou's Mother burst into tears.

Ye Shuang also realized that Aunt Xian's words were stepping on Yuyou's landmine. Looking at the young girl sitting in his arms, he first gently patted her back, and then said to Zhou's Mother,

"Aunt Xian..."

Seeing that the other party seemed to be out of control, Ye Shuang sighed silently in his heart. How many families would these damned human traffickers ruin before they stopped? Bai Yuyou could have grown up healthily like a little princess, instead of sitting in a dark attic, staring blankly out of the small window.

"Chen Qin." Ye Shuang looked at Chen Qin beside him at this time. "Please take Yuyou to the living room and sit for a while. I want to talk to Aunt Xian and Uncle Zhou alone."

Hearing this, Chen Qin stood up, but Bai Yuyou refused to get out of Ye Shuang's arms no matter what. It was not until he comforted her a few more times that Bai Yuyou was led by Chen Qin to sit on the sofa in the living room.

After they were a little apart, Ye Shuang saw that Zhou's Mother's emotions had gradually calmed down, and then he said,

"Aunt Xian, Yuyou's current situation... Although it's just my personal opinion,

but at present, she is not really suitable to go back to Hong Kong with you."

"Why?!"

"Because she was probably abducted when she was two or three years old. That memory is too vague,

or rather, she doesn't remember it at all.

In other words... for Yuyou, you are no different from strangers now."

Ye Shuang's words left Zhou's Father and Zhou's Mother speechless for a moment.

"You can also see that she is very dependent on me..." Ye Shuang continued.

"But not long ago, the situation was completely different. Yuyou lived alone. She was locked in the attic from the age of eight for eight years.

After she came out at the age of sixteen, she entered school under the arrangement of the community."

"Not to mention that before she was eight years old, she was beaten by Bai Laoqi every day. She might not even have enough to eat and was often abused."

"When she lived alone later, no one taught her how to live on her own or how to live at school. In modern society, she didn't have a mobile phone, didn't know how to recharge the meal card. Because she didn't know how to wash clothes, she always wore un - dried clothes and was disliked and bullied by her classmates..."

"Even if she had money, she would only buy instant noodles. Maybe she had never eaten a hot meal in those years."

"Moreover, due to being locked up for a long time, her language ability was almost lost. She didn't know how to communicate with others. In the eyes of others, she was a freak, a fool, a mental patient, and an outcast."

"As a result, she was once locked in the toilet all night and couldn't call for help. Someone would burn her hair with a lighter. She would be suddenly kicked to the ground while walking. The seat in class would be broken and filled with garbage. Even when she was wrongly accused, she didn't have the ability to defend herself and could only subconsciously apologize and say sorry."

She should have hated the world for all its unfairness to her, but she didn't.

Ye Shuang continued, "When I was at my most down and sad, it was this child.

Because she thought I might be hungry and knew how it felt to be hungry, she gave me the instant noodles she had just bought..."

"She is really a very kind - hearted child."

The world treated her harshly, but she responded with kindness.

Because Chen's Father and Chen's Mother didn't have the heart to tell Zhou's Father and Zhou's Mother too many things, when they learned what Bai Yuyou had gone through, Zhou's Father and Zhou's Mother finally couldn't hold back their emotions and were speechless for a moment.

"Then, then why can't I take her home?" Zhou's Mother choked with sobs.

Ye Shuang didn't answer but continued, "I was also brought back to her home on that rainy night. To be honest, the relationship between Yuyou and me is more like mutual support.

I had nowhere to go at that time. She just simply thought I was pitiful, so she didn't want me to leave and even stuffed all her money into my hands."

"After I found out that she had no ability to take care of herself, I started to take care of her life as a way to repay her."

"At the same time, I taught her how to clean, wash clothes, take a bath... and blow dry her hair."

"I taught her how to cook..."

"Of course, I also went to the college where she studied and secretly helped her solve some small problems at school."

Ye Shuang talked on and on, smiling. "Now, she has made new friends.

She can go shopping and have desserts with her friends like a normal girl. She can also say no to things she doesn't want to do."

"Her academic performance has also improved, and she can gradually talk to others."

"By the way, we picked up a kitten. Because the medical expenses cost ten thousand yuan, we named it Ten Thousand."

"She even received love letters and was publicly confessed to, instead of being the smelly girl she used to be."

Ye Shuang rambled on. He found that there seemed to be endless things to say about his and Yuyou's experiences. Finally, he continued with a smile,

"I originally planned to leave after Yuyou became independent.

But... after we came out of the police station that day, when she said 'I don't want my parents, I only want Ye Shuang', I seemed to realize... her dependence on me was stronger than I thought."

"I've thought it through now..."

"So - "

Ye Shuang stood up at this time and bent down seriously.

"Aunt Xian, Uncle Zhou, if possible, please don't disturb Yuyou's current life before she becomes independent."

After all, she is also my treasure.

The air was deathly silent. Everyone's eyes were on Ye Shuang.