Your Beloved Sweetheart Is Online-Chapter 1692 - 1695: So What If I’m Little Chu! (5)

"And then I went to look for you, but I couldn’t find you." Hua Hua snorted, "Then I continued begging, but that lady who helped me bathe told me I was a boy and even bought me boy’s clothes to wear. I thought she was lying to me. That lady had a son, and he said I had a willy and wasn’t a girl, that wearing braids was really creepy. The lady even cut my hair short like yours."

The more Hua Hua thought about it, the deeper the memories became. Those distant memories slowly became clear: "Later, when the money ran out and I still couldn’t find you, I started begging alone again. Anyway, after that, everything was just me alone, everything by myself. I don’t know how long it was before I met my brother, and then we begged together. But my brother was really amazing. We didn’t beg for long before he taught me that people need to be self-reliant, not rely on others’ charity, that even as kids, we needed to understand this truth, and that we had to learn how to earn our own money."

Hua Hua abruptly stopped talking, pressing her lips tightly: "Did you really search for me everywhere?"

Hua Hua let out a particularly heavy snort: "Hmph, don’t lie to me, abandoning me just means abandoning me, don’t make excuses for yourself!" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"Is this really how fate plays with us?" Ling Yin’s eyes grew slightly moist: "I was taken to the hospital, and you were taken home by a sanitation worker. We just couldn’t find each other. Later you turned into a boy, looking all clean and tidy; maybe even if I met you on some street, I might not be able to recognize you."

Ling Yin said the last sentence almost to herself.

Listening to Hua Hua, he thought he might have seen Little Chu at some street corner, only his little sister Chu was a little beggar girl with two braids in tattered clothes, while the one standing on the street might be Little Chu, the short-haired brother. Could this world be any more ridiculous?

As Ling Yin spoke, tears surprisingly rolled down his eyes: "I really searched everywhere for you, day after day, street after street, for many days, staking out in the alleys every night until I truly couldn’t find you anymore and was sent to the orphanage."

"Even at the orphanage, I tried countless times to escape and search the streets for you, persisting for half a year, but sadly I never found you. After that, I met a benefactor in my life, he was called Tian Junhao. He took me in, nurtured me, and told me, to protect someone, you first need to become very strong yourself, otherwise it’s just empty talk."

"Over these years, following him, I truly understood what it means to go from nothing to something, from weak to strong. He is the strongest person I’ve ever met in my life. No, he is the emperor, an unmatched king!" Ling Yin, when talking about Tian Junhao, felt endless admiration and respect, but more so, nostalgia. Ling Yin put away his sense of admiration and gently stroked Hua Hua’s hair: "Little Chu, I always thought you were a girl. For all these years, I’ve been searching for a girl, never thinking I should be looking for a boy. I never thought of abandoning you, I just couldn’t find you. Really, please believe me!"

"How could I possibly abandon you? I promised Uncle Yuan that I would protect you, love you all my life, not let you suffer, not let you be bullied!" He hugged Hua Hua tightly: "When I saw you back then, I didn’t dare to guess you were Little Chu, but then again, I felt a damn sense of familiarity and closeness when I saw you. When I found out you were Little Chu, I was shocked, almost thinking you had undergone a gender change surgery. You have no idea how stunned I was. I was really scared stiff."