Entwined by Dawn: The CEO's Relentless Obsession-Chapter 581: Deep-Rooted Beliefs

Li Zhu’s eyes suddenly lit up, then he looked at Gu Tiantian with great confidence.

"Um, Tian Tian, I’m a man, I can eat by myself!"

Gu Tiantian looked at Li Xinghua, who was skinny and small, almost indistinguishable in age, and smiled kindly.

Li Xinghua grinned, showing her white teeth, and continued to lower her head and scoop rice.

Hearing this, Gu Tiantian couldn’t help but let out a laugh. Li Zhu, seeing this, blushed, his cheeks puffed out with rice in his mouth, and because of his innocent eyes, he seemed very cute.

"Tian Tian, I’m serious, I really am a man, look, I’ll eat to show you!"

Gu Tiantian continued to laugh and happened to see Li Xinghua also grinning beside her, which made her look at Li Xinghua a few more times.

The little girl looked only a little over ten years old, but she was a clever rascal, and at such a young age, she had no bad intentions, completely different from Li Das and Wang Chun.

Thinking about the intentions of Li Das and Wang Chun, Gu Tiantian was about to say something when Li Xinghua suddenly leaned over, lowered her voice, and asked her nervously.

"Sister Tiantian, I’ve already spread the news. Are you sure my parents won’t hit me when they find out?"

Seeing the worry on Li Xinghua’s face, Gu Tiantian smiled gently and confidently.

"Absolutely, if they do try to hit you, I’ll stand in front of you. Unless I fall, I won’t let them hurt you even a little!"

Li Xinghua blinked her eyes, stopped scooping rice, sighed, and looked very troubled and melancholy.

"Actually... it’s just that my parents are worried that my brother won’t find a wife, so... actually buying one would be fine, why do they have to trouble you, Sister Tiantian?"

Gu Tiantian: "..."

Buying one would be fine?

Realizing this issue again, Gu Tiantian looked at Li Xinghua seriously. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"Xinghua, buying and selling a wife is wrong, it’s something that could get you taken to the police station. Think about it, if one day you were caught and sold to someone you don’t know as a wife, would you be willing?"

Li Xinghua looked at Gu Tiantian with some confusion and only after a while did she slowly speak.

"Sister Tiantian, I won’t be caught because I’m always with my parents and brother, and, my parents have long promised me to Fatty Tao at the east end of the village. The bride price was used to buy a wife for my brother, but that wife died of illness. If it weren’t for the fact that my brother hasn’t married yet and there’s no one to help with the housework, I would have been married off already."

Gu Tiantian: "..."

It seems the young girl’s mind has been influenced by her family’s environment since she was little, and she completely doesn’t see anything wrong with the buying and selling of people or being used by her parents to exchange for a bride price for her brother.

Besides sighing, Gu Tiantian didn’t know what else to say.

If she were to tell Li Xinghua now that all of that is wrong, the little girl might not be able to accept it, and it could also provoke dissatisfaction from Li Das and Wang Chun.

"Xinghua, you’re a good girl, and you deserve better."

Li Xinghua grinned, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Gu Tiantian.

"Sister Tiantian really thinks so?"

At this point, Li Xinghua’s expression turned troubled again.

"But my parents always say I’m a liability, and that I’m not good-looking, too small to do much work, and I eat a lot."

"Alright, alright, in the future, when they say things like that, let it go in one ear and out the other. Xinghua, you have to believe in yourself, you are the best!"

Though Li Xinghua was puzzled, seeing the conviction in Gu Tiantian’s eyes, she nodded along.

"Um, I am the best."