Chapter 231: Chapter 224: Hurting in a Dream

Unexpectedly, the daughter he met was not like a plump dumpling, but a disfigured bun.

Don’t be scared, daughter, your father will make sure you go to college.

He returned to the village, borrowed everything he could, worked the hardest and most tiresome jobs on the construction site, and even secretively sold his blood on several occasions just to scrape together his daughter’s tuition fees.

Eventually, Tang Yuxin went to university, where she majored in medicine and would become a doctor in the future.

What her weather-beaten father didn’t know was that the money he worked hard to earn for his daughter eventually ended up in the hands of a man. Even the money she earned from her part-time job was used to finance this man’s university education, his postgraduate studies, and his study abroad.

Later on, when she wanted to buy a house, her aged father gave her all the money he had. Yet, his foolish daughter still didn’t realize that a large part of this money was actually earned by her father selling his own blood.

She used it, she spent it.

It wasn’t until she found out that her father had become old and white-haired, and she finally woke up and wanted to leave that man and take care of her father.

However, she was involved in a car accident. What she left for her elderly father were a cold corpse, a cold ashes pot, a lifeless tombstone, and all the money she had saved for her father’s retirement life over the years, as well as the compensation for her life from the driver who hit her.

Only, how much is a person’s life worth? Does anyone know?

A trifling few hundred thousand yuan for a life.

Yet, how could these hundreds of thousands of yuan compensate for a father’s sorrowful experience of sending off his young daughter, or for the fleeting of a young life?

Even if she did a good deed at the brink of death.

Even if she saved a person.

Even if this person would take care of her elderly father for the rest of his life.

But the pain of losing a daughter, no one can bear for the pitiable father.

Tang Yuxin suddenly felt a pain in her heart, an indescribable pain that made her curl up.

She was in pain, every part of her was in pain. It was as though she had been crushed by a car, shattering her bones, her flesh, and her organs.

“Daddy… Daddy…”

She kept calling for her father, perhaps in her subconscious, the one she loved and longed for the most was him.

Although Tang Yuxin only called out for her father and never uttered ‘mother’, in her heart, even at the time of her death in her previous life, she thought only of her white-haired father. As for her mother, she already belonged to someone else, so what did that have to do with her?

“Daddy, it hurts…”

She clutched her chest, crying incessantly with pain.

Then a hand was placed on her head, gently stroking it.

It was just like when she was a baby and her father’s hand would be placed on her head.

Back then, she would open her big eyes, smile at her father, smile at a baby bottle, cry when she was hungry, and cry when she was wronged.

“Yuxin, don’t be scared, don’t be scared,”

“Daddy is here, daddy is here,” Tang Zhinian sat next to his daughter at this time. The moment he heard his daughter cry out in pain, he hurriedly called for a doctor.

“Doctor, my daughter is in pain. Where is it hurting?”

The doctor hurried over, but after a thorough examination, he couldn’t find anything wrong.

Where is it hurting?

Everything seems to be alright. Could it be her foot that’s hurting?

“Maybe she’s dreaming,” the doctor finally speculated. Even if her foot was hurting, a young girl should be able to bear it. If she was in this much pain, chances are she was dreaming.

These children are pitiable, each of them badly frightened.

This one is alright, her foot just got injured. But there is another child, only fourteen years old, who was violated by a group of beasts… The child’s underneath was badly damaged. Although she has regained consciousness, she is like a dummy, neither eating nor drinking, crying nor making a fuss. She doesn’t answer any questions and doesn’t know where her family is.

Such a pitiful child.

Tang Yuxin gently twitched her long lashes, slowly opening her eyes to see a world of total white. It was clean, cold, and even reminiscent of death.

“Xinxin…” At this moment, a large hand was placed on her forehead. The palm of the hand was covered with a layer of rough callosities.

This was a pair of hardworking hands, a pair of hands that had done heavy labor. Like the bark of a tree, these hands had endured wind and frost, age, and time.

“Daddy…”

Tang Yuxin called out, and as she smiled, all her memories came flooding back.

She knew they were her father’s hands. In this world, only her father had such hands. He had once held her small hand, guiding her to walk step by step, and repeatedly used his hard-earned money to support his unambitious and dispirited daughter.

“It’s daddy, it’s daddy’s…”

Tang Zhinian felt a sting in his throat. “Wait a moment,” Tang Zhinian quickly patted his daughter’s head, “Daddy’s going to find the doctor for you.”

In no time, the doctor came over again.

After another examination of Tang Yuxin, the doctor reassured them. Everything was fine except for her foot injury, which would need time to heal. But overall, there was no big problem. Fortunately, these children were lucky, except for the one who was violated…

These human traffickers were truly detestable, committing such atrocities even against children.

As soon as Tang Zhinian heard from the doctor that Tang Yuxin was alright, his heart finally eased. When he received the call from Chen’s father that Yuxin was missing, he was almost frantic.

She had gone missing.

By the time he rushed to Water City by plane in great anxiety, Xu’s father, who had arrived at the same time, found that Xu Miaomiao was missing as well. Chen Liteng couldn’t explain clearly, only that the two girls were missing. Just as they had nearly finished searching Water City and were about to report to the police, the police notified them that their children had been found. They had been abducted by criminals and were later rescued by a group of soldiers.

When they heard the word ‘human traffickers’, the three fathers were terrified. While it wasn’t that big of a deal for a boy, who at most would suffer some physical injuries, it was different for girls. If those beasts had done anything to their children, their entire lives would have been ruined.

When they arrived at the hospital and heard that one of the children had been violated by three human traffickers…

At that moment, Tang Zhinian’s heart sank to an all-time low, his legs so weak he almost couldn’t walk. It wasn’t until he saw his daughter and the doctor told him that his Little Yuxin had only hurt her foot and had not been harmed elsewhere, that his hanging heart was finally put at rest. Xu Miaomiao was also unharmed, only that she was so frightened that she still wasn’t in a good mental state.