Who just gets on a train without knowing where they’re going?
"No, Yan Wei, where are you going by train? Did your parents agree?" Zhang Qiang glanced at the train car where many people were resting, and couldn’t help but lower his voice. He looked at Yan Wei, feeling that she seemed different from the first time he saw her.
The smile on her face was gone, her face had thinned, and her eyes were bloodshot, as if she hadn’t slept for days. The doctor’s diagnosis just now also said she was overworked and hadn’t eaten.
Could it be that her family is abusing her?
Zhang Qiang speculated to himself but remembered that when he last saw Yan Wei, she said she was buying medicine for her mother, which didn’t seem like it.
"I..." When Yan Wei opened her mouth, she choked up.
Zhang Qiang didn’t have any tissues left. He raised his hands and said, "I didn’t bully you, let’s talk properly. Don’t cry, otherwise, people will think I bullied you."
"I can’t help it." Yan Wei looked at Zhang Qiang apologetically. She didn’t want to cry, but she just couldn’t hold back.
So many days had passed, and Yan Wei thought she had no tears left. But who knew, she still always wanted to cry.
After a long time, when Yan Wei calmed down, she sobbed and said, "I, I have no dad or mom anymore."
Zhang Qiang’s heart skipped a beat, asking, "Didn’t you take money back last time?"
"My mom’s condition worsened, and she couldn’t be saved." Thinking of what happened that day made Yan Wei’s heart ache.
After parting with Zhang Qiang and returning home, Yan Wei’s mom had already died. Her stepfather was arranging her mom’s funeral, and Yan Wei felt like a puppet on strings.
She managed to sell some rice dumplings, earning a bit of money, but it was of no use.
Her stepfather took the money from Yan Wei under the pretext of funeral arrangements.
Three days later, after her mom was buried, her stepfather started insisting that Yan Wei get married, which Yan Wei didn’t want.
Moreover, the person her stepfather wanted her to marry was the stepbrother who had always harassed her.
When her mom was alive, she always kept the stepbrother in check, and Yan Wei spent most of her time at school.
But now that her mom was gone, her stepfather directly wanted her to marry the stepbrother. Yan Wei also overheard her stepbrother planning to take advantage of her and then claim that Yan Wei was willing to become his wife.
When Yan Wei heard this, she was terrified and just wanted to escape as far away as possible. She took the 200 yuan she had hidden and fled to Jiang City. Still feeling it wasn’t far enough, she went to the train station and bought the earliest ticket available, ending up on this train.
The rest, Zhang Qiang knew.
"Yan Wei, didn’t your mom know about this before?" Zhang Qiang asked.
Yan Wei was silent for a moment before saying, "My mom always insisted I stay at school. After graduating high school, I worked with mom selling food at a small stall. She never allowed me to go home alone."
"Then..." Zhang Qiang wanted to ask about Yan Wei’s mom.
Yan Wei paused before saying, "I always thought my mom was ill, but later, I found out she was beaten by my stepfather."
Yan Wei overheard this by accident.


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