She Stuns the World - Chapter 192: Chapter 192
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Athena could tell from Maria's choice of words that Maria's "Dad and Mom" or " parents" were her adoptive parents.
"But later..." Maria lowered her eyes, her face filled with sadness. "Something... unfortunate happened at home. We fell into pain and poverty. My biological mother took me away from this home and we returned to the mountains."
Athena's heart skipped a beat when she heard that.
Athena wondered what "unfortunate things" referred to.
It was not just about the hospital fire incident and the mix-up with the children back then. But she did not ask anything.
Maria did not mention anything about what happened to the Donovan family, only talking about herself: "I felt like I had fallen from heaven to hell. Every minute, every second, I wanted to leave that house and return here."
"But, there was no way. I did not have the right to make the decision."
"Not long after I returned to the mountains, my biological mother abandoned me and ran away. That family despised me even more."
"Where I come from, girls usually get married when they are fourteen or fifteen. They rarely get a marriage certificate. It was the same for my biological parents."
"A year later, I was only about eight years old. My biological father wanted to marry a second wife, so he accepted twenty thousand dollars from a family in another village and gave me to them as a child bride."
Athena was knowledgeable, and she had heard of such things before. However, her pupils constricted when she heard this, and shock and anger flashed in her eyes.
For twenty thousand dollars, Maria's father sold his eight-year-old daughter's life to someone else. She could not believe it.
In the eyes of those people, the girl was probably no different from a cow or a horse.
"If I had lived in the mountains and never seen life in the city, I might have accepted my fate." Speaking of the past, Maria still had lingering fears, and her voice was filled with fear.
"But I have lived with this family for a long time and have even attended primary school. I could not accept the fate of being locked up in the mountains for the rest of my life and reduced to a fertility and work tool."
However, no matter how much she cried and begged and even knelt until her knees bled, her biological father was determined to sell her.
Moreover, she was very young at the time. The mountain village she lived in was three to four hours away from the nearest town by mountain road, and the town was another two to three hours' drive from the county. She had no way to escape.
She thought about ending her life.
But when she contemplated death, she thought of her adoptive parents. They were her only hope.
She pretended to comply with the family's arrangements and requested to go to town to buy new clothes. The family agreed.
When she got to town, she quietly bought some envelopes and stamps, put her written plea for help inside an envelope, and dropped it into a mailbox.
She did not know if her letter would be sent out, nor did she know if her adoptive parents would be able to rescue her, even if they received it.
She could only pray day and night, praying that her adoptive parents would come and save her.
"I thought the chances were slim. It was like the sand in my hand; no matter how tightly I gripped it, I could not hold on," Maria said in a low voice.
"My adoptive parents are good people, but at that time, the family was struggling a lot..."
"My adoptive parents could barely take care of themselves. How could they possibly have had the means to save me."
"I had already prepared myself."
"If no one came to save me on the day I was sent away, I would have jumped off a cliff on the way."
Athena slowly raised her hand, wanting to pat Maria's head, but she did not.
At this point, Maria burst into tears and smiled.
"But I never imagined that on the very day the buyer came to pick me up, my adoptive parents would actually show up."
"They seemed like gods descending from the sky. They took out twenty-four thousand dollars and gave it to my biological father. He signed the document, and then they took me away."
"I felt like I had died and been reborn that day."
"But later..." Maria lowered her eyes, her face filled with sadness. "Something... unfortunate happened at home. We fell into pain and poverty. My biological mother took me away from this home and we returned to the mountains."
Athena's heart skipped a beat when she heard that.
Athena wondered what "unfortunate things" referred to.
It was not just about the hospital fire incident and the mix-up with the children back then. But she did not ask anything.
Maria did not mention anything about what happened to the Donovan family, only talking about herself: "I felt like I had fallen from heaven to hell. Every minute, every second, I wanted to leave that house and return here."
"But, there was no way. I did not have the right to make the decision."
"Not long after I returned to the mountains, my biological mother abandoned me and ran away. That family despised me even more."
"Where I come from, girls usually get married when they are fourteen or fifteen. They rarely get a marriage certificate. It was the same for my biological parents."
"A year later, I was only about eight years old. My biological father wanted to marry a second wife, so he accepted twenty thousand dollars from a family in another village and gave me to them as a child bride."
Athena was knowledgeable, and she had heard of such things before. However, her pupils constricted when she heard this, and shock and anger flashed in her eyes.
For twenty thousand dollars, Maria's father sold his eight-year-old daughter's life to someone else. She could not believe it.
In the eyes of those people, the girl was probably no different from a cow or a horse.
"If I had lived in the mountains and never seen life in the city, I might have accepted my fate." Speaking of the past, Maria still had lingering fears, and her voice was filled with fear.
"But I have lived with this family for a long time and have even attended primary school. I could not accept the fate of being locked up in the mountains for the rest of my life and reduced to a fertility and work tool."
However, no matter how much she cried and begged and even knelt until her knees bled, her biological father was determined to sell her.
Moreover, she was very young at the time. The mountain village she lived in was three to four hours away from the nearest town by mountain road, and the town was another two to three hours' drive from the county. She had no way to escape.
She thought about ending her life.
But when she contemplated death, she thought of her adoptive parents. They were her only hope.
She pretended to comply with the family's arrangements and requested to go to town to buy new clothes. The family agreed.
When she got to town, she quietly bought some envelopes and stamps, put her written plea for help inside an envelope, and dropped it into a mailbox.
She did not know if her letter would be sent out, nor did she know if her adoptive parents would be able to rescue her, even if they received it.
She could only pray day and night, praying that her adoptive parents would come and save her.
"I thought the chances were slim. It was like the sand in my hand; no matter how tightly I gripped it, I could not hold on," Maria said in a low voice.
"My adoptive parents are good people, but at that time, the family was struggling a lot..."
"My adoptive parents could barely take care of themselves. How could they possibly have had the means to save me."
"I had already prepared myself."
"If no one came to save me on the day I was sent away, I would have jumped off a cliff on the way."
Athena slowly raised her hand, wanting to pat Maria's head, but she did not.
At this point, Maria burst into tears and smiled.
"But I never imagined that on the very day the buyer came to pick me up, my adoptive parents would actually show up."
"They seemed like gods descending from the sky. They took out twenty-four thousand dollars and gave it to my biological father. He signed the document, and then they took me away."
"I felt like I had died and been reborn that day."
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