Scorching sun, halfway up the mountain, Qiao's villa!

Eleven-year-old Joey stood in the hallway on the third floor of the Qiao family house, but he felt as if a cold and venomous snake was coiling around him, his whole body numb with fear!

"Ah—Mama, Mama—"

Just now, I saw with my own eyes how my father Qiao Zhian pushed my mother down the stairs.

His eyes were bloodshot, wild and manic, like a demon crawling out of hell. He even sprinted down the stairs and kicked his mother's pregnant belly several times!

Mom collapsed in the muck, her insides spilling out between her legs. A crimson torrent flowed from her, searing Joy's eyes.

"No, stop, don't hurt my mother, get away—"

Joey reacted, stumbling down the stairs and running into Joe.

Chiao Chih-An was caught off guard, pushed back two steps. Seeing it, Li sneered with contempt: "Little bitch, you and he are the same, both deserve to die!"

Joey couldn't hear him at this time.

Burying himself in his mother's side, he clutched at her arm with careful hands, gently shaking it. His voice trembled violently from fear.

"Mommy, mommy, wake up! Please don't leave me, Mom…"

"Iii, hurry... run away..."

A person slightly opened their weary eyes, from within them shone unwillingness, reluctance, helplessness, heartache...

A reaching hand, as if trying to give one last slap to the face.

But, it was truly too painful, too tiring. My arms felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and finally, with a jerk, they fell onto the icy floor. I closed my eyes and could no longer feel anything.

"Mom, Mom, ah... Joe Chian, you beast, why did you hurt my mom!?"

Joey's eyes were filled with pain, tears welling up. His heart felt like it was being cut to pieces, every bit of him throbbing with agony!

Get up from the ground and grab an antique vase on the table next to you, and fly at Joe Chan!

But at just eleven years old, he was insignificant compared to the towering Joe Chiang!

"Bang!"

Joe Chih-an's hand, like an iron clamp, grasped the slender neck, lifting the frail figure off the ground.

The painful kicks were relentless, yearning to break free, but it was all in vain!

The antique vase in his hand fell to the ground, useless.

"Ahem, let go, ahem..."

Joe Chih-an stared at the Joy in his hand, with disdain: "You bastard, your mother cheated on me and got pregnant by another man. It serves you right! If it weren't for a DNA test confirming that you were my son, do you think you'd even be alive?! Now that you've seen this, from today onwards, you will be confined to your room for the rest of your life!

……

"Cold, so cold, mommy save me…"

The room, the air conditioner seems to be broken, continuously at a low temperature.

But the room offered no source of warmth, and not even a blanket or sheets were left on the bed. The closet was also bare, with all his clothes vanished!

Joey was curled up, shivering from the cold.

One night later, I had a high fever and started to feel delirious. I couldn't remember anything.

>On the hallway.

Wearing a purple robe, with long flowing hair and an elegant face, the person embraced Qiao Zhi'an's arm and said, "Zhi'an, just now the doctor said his brain is burnt out and he will be a fool from now on. If we let him stay here, people will know later and they will definitely laugh at you."

"What do you suggest then? After all, it's about my upper stream, I can't just..."

"I have an idea. Since Kitchen Li is getting up there in years, maybe it's time for her to retire and go back home. Why don't we let her take Joey with her to the countryside? We can give them a monthly allowance. Wouldn't that be better than having her stay here and be a nuisance?"

Qiao Zhi'an nodded upon hearing this: "Let's do it your way."

That night, Li Sao and Joey were driven by bodyguards to a countryside village a thousand miles away.

Li Sao'en previously called Joy Mommy took good care of, so she changed Joy's name to follow Joy Mommy's surname, naming her Shen Yiy.

……

Seven years later—

Shen Yiy was marrying into the Huo family to repay her grandmother's kindness. At this moment, she was dressed in a wedding gown, going as a substitute bride for Huo Sanye, the third master of the Huo family.

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