Eevonne smiled miserably for a moment. " To be honest with you, Kingston, I am still one hundred thousand dollars in debt. You didn't expect that, did you? You originally thought that you had saved a very simple girl from a village. In the end, however, you’ve saved a person with a huge debt instead. Don't worry, Kingston. I won't borrow money from you. I won’t ask you for a single cent at all. I've finally met someone who is so willing to listen to me, who doesn't look down on me, and even treats me as a friend. I certainly won't ruin this kind of relationship. The fact that you're willing to take me as a friend and not think of me as a psycho already made me feel very touched."
Hearing her words, Kingston felt quite saddened. "What do you plan to do next then?"
Eevonne smiled miserably. "What plans can I have? Even my mother doesn't want me anymore. The thirty thousand dollars that I've saved in the past two years are in her hands. The house is also hers. She can give them to whoever she wishes to give. My brother is working now, anyway. If she can bear to let her children become homeless, then she can just give it to my uncle’s family. I was thinking that if she could give the house to my uncle's family, then my cousin would probably take care of her in the future, wouldn't they? Perhaps she is also having this same thought.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have forced us so aggressively to give my uncle the house that my family had built. As for my father, he and my mother had long been separated. He is working alone on the construction site. He loves to drink and his health is not so good. He's only able to make two thousand dollars a month, but he can support himself. If he is willing to follow me, then I’ll let him follow me. I'll bring along with me to get jobs in another place, and then I'll slowly pay back my debt.
"You...don't intend to care for your mother anymore?" Kingston asked as he tried to probe.
Hearing that, Eevonne cried. "She... probably doesn't want me either. If she still cared about me, she wouldn’t have just watched as my cousins took the stool to smash my head, used their legs to kick my belly, and kept kicking me over and over again while pinning me down to the ground. I was beaten up so badly, but she still said, 'Beat her to death. Beat her to death.’ Kingston, have you ever met such a mother? Since she doesn't want me anymore, I'll take my mother and leave this place then. As long as she can live a little better. She has always been very close to my uncle and aunts. She had always been looking very sorrowful. It is only when she is at my uncle's house that she can laugh happily."
Kingston was speechless. He was planning in his mind how he could help Eevonne.
"Kingston, I've told you so much. It has almost been two hours, and I've cried and laughed. I'm sorry that you have to see that. I've truly done too many absurd things in the past. I'm really sorry you had to see that. I'm fine. Nothing will happen to me. Don't worry as I won't kill myself so easily. I still have such a huge debt that I have yet cleared, so I won't kill myself.
Besides, I still have a younger brother. My brother is very pitiful as well. Like me, he dropped out of school at a young age. It's really tough to be working alone out there. I am also still worried about my mother.
What if one day my uncle and his family disliked her and she was left homeless?"
Upon saying that, Eevonne started crying again. Kingston felt incredibly relieved and happy. This girl still has a conscience, after all. Her own mother despised her so much, yet she was still thinking of taking care of her mother.
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