Rebirth Into My Second Chance novel Chapter 308

I smiled and shook my head. "It won't be over that quickly. Even if Lily dies, this country will fall into chaos. Someone will need to step up and lead. Max, I don't want to hide behind you forever."

Under the moonlight, Max's eyes were filled with hesitation and reluctance to leave.

"It's alright. This is my responsibility anyway. My parents sent me away from this country to keep me out of the conflict, but look how it turned out. I don't think this is the ending they wanted to see."

After talking it through, Max finally agreed to let me take charge and make real changes here.

After we parted ways, I sat alone on the mud wall again, watching as Helen and the others secretly delivered rice and vegetable seeds to every household.

Overwhelmed with gratitude, the villagers turned in my direction and bowed deeply.

The people here had been conditioned to be incredibly subservient.

"Tell them not to bow to me next time. I'm not used to it," I told Helen when she came over late that night to drape a jacket over my shoulders.

"They're used to doing it," Helen replied. "When we went door-to-door today, I noticed that most of them have severe skin conditions. It's likely from long-term malnutrition combined with high sugar intake and terrible living conditions. Some of them even have terrible infections on their feet..."

"Their blood sugar levels must be incredibly high. Skin infections caused by high blood sugar won't heal properly—they just ulcerate and get worse. If they aren't treated soon, many of them might need amputations."

Everything was scarce here. Lily's method of controlling these people was literally holding their lives hostage.

"That is downright vicious!" Helen said, gritting her teeth in anger.

"We don't have antibiotics or diabetes medication. If we need to buy some in the city, I'll go with you over the next two days since Max said he and Lily will be out of town."

Helen suddenly reached out and gave me a hug. "Claire, I've noticed you're becoming much more certain about what you want."

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