The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1686

"What have you gone through?"

Rachel felt somewhat speechless.

In fact, she had thought about what would happen to a three-year-old child after they were lost. She just comforted herself when she saw Carmel standing in front of her, safe and sound.

Maybe Carmel was just lucky or she was protected by the ancestors of the Liu family.

But Carmel had countless things she didn't want to talk about, but now she had to tell Rachel about it.

Carmel sneered and said, "I was only three years old. I remembered very clearly that a bearded man told me that my aunt was waiting for me and asked me to go with him. I didn't go, so he covered my mouth with a handkerchief and I lost consciousness because of the pungent smell. When I woke up again, I found myself in a valley in the home of a poor family. The so-called home was a shack and they bought me."

"I thought that I finally had a home. I didn't care even if they weren't my own parents or if I'm in a strange environment. After all, I'm not alone. Can you understand how a toddler would feel if they wake up in a strange environment? I was afraid and I shouted for you to save me, but was beaten to a pulp."

"That man was so fierce and he whipped me until I bled from multiple wounds on my body. I passed out after being beaten, but no one cared about my life. When I woke up, I was thrown on straw and it was so cold. Did you think that was the worst thing that happened? No, it wasn't."

Carmel's hands were clasped tightly together. Her eyes were bloodshot and she said word by word, "That family had a sick son. They didn't have money to treat their son, so they could only go to the mountain to pick herbs. But they were not doctors, so they didn't know what kind of herbs were useful for their son's illness. Their purpose of buying me was just to test out herbs for their son!"

"Every time she wanted to feed her son some herbs, I had to eat it first. She would only give it to her son when I had no reaction. But most of the time, I couldn't stop vomiting because of the pain and I wanted to die immediately. But I miraculously survived every time. At that time, did you ever think that your niece would experience this?"

Carmel was completely stunned.

She had never thought about these things!

She really didn't!

She thought that the most miserable thing that could happen to Carmel was to be kidnapped by traffickers and thrown on the street to beg, so she had been looking for the child beggars on the street all these years. However, there had been no news at all.

She didn't know that this could happen! Carmel was even worse off than those kids!

Tears instantly welled up in Rachel's eyes.

Carmel smiled brightly instead and there was water in her eyes.

"Did you know? I spent four years like this! I didn't expect to grow up quickly and I even hoped that I could die quickly so I could escape. That village was very far away from the suburbs. I once tried to escape, but I failed. After I was caught, I was beaten up badly again. Later when I was seven years old, my adoptive father tied me up when my adoptive mother was not at home. He molested me and he even kissed me. Do you know how I felt at that time?"

"Stop talking! Just stop!"

Rachel felt that she couldn't listen to Carmel any more or she would go crazy.

Carmel still smiled and said, "I thought that I must have done a grave sin in my past life and I was being punished for it. My adoptive mother came back and saw what her husband did to me. Not only did she not blame him, but she punished me instead. She blamed me for seducing him. How could a seven-year-old child learn how to do that? Did he need to tie me up if I consented to it?"