"I...I..."

Li Xiaoman's eyes were red and his voice was choked. He wanted to say something but couldn't.

After all, that period of gloomy life was a nightmare that could never be eliminated in her heart. She did not reveal this disgraceful past in public at all.

"Okay, let's talk after the things here are settled."

Ding Ning quickly realized that since Li Xiaoman dared to show up here as a liquor girl, he definitely couldn't have escaped from prison, so it was easy to guess.

After all, although she and Liu Shasha were suspected of murder, they took advantage of the chaos to trample Gu Tianqi to death. As long as they refused to admit that it was intentional, there was nothing the court could do against them.

In addition, Gu Tianqi and his son's crimes were so heinous that they deserved their death. Considering their pitiful experiences, it is normal for the court to give them a lenient sentence.

The facts were indeed as Ding Ning had guessed. The families of Li Xiaoman and Liu Shasha hired lawyers to defend them. Under the lawyer's instruction, they insisted that they accidentally trampled Gu Tianqi to death in panic, and the court could only hold them accountable for deliberately setting the fire.

Because of their guilt and the inhuman abuse they had suffered, they were only sentenced to two years, or suspended.

However, the two were sentenced and the school expelled them. Liu Shasha had no face to stay in Ninghai anymore, so she returned to her hometown in the countryside and started a new life.

Li Xiaoman's parents divorced when she was young, and her mother remarried to a scumbag. Her scumbag stepfather coveted her beauty when she was a teenager. He peeked at her bathing every night and tried to rape her several times. If she hadn't been protected by her mother,

Well, she has long since become that scumbag's plaything.

Later, her mother borrowed money from here and there to raise enough tuition for her to go to school in Ninghai and get rid of her scumbag stepfather. When she left, she cried and told her to never go back again, otherwise she would never escape the clutches of that old gangster.

Li Xiaoman is not a vain girl at heart, but she needs money, a lot of money, and hopes that one day she can help her mother escape from the misery of that old gangster.

This is also the reason why she was easily deceived and drugged by Gu Tianqi as a plaything.

Now that something like this happened, it was even more impossible for her to return to her hometown. She could only stay in Ninghai and suffer miserably, hoping that one day she could earn enough money to live a good life with her mother.

Although Ding Ning still doesn't know her experience, he can imagine the criticism and tremendous pressure she will endure after being sentenced. It is not shameful to work as a bar girl and earn money by working on her own.

Especially when he discovered that Li Xiaoman no longer wore makeup and dressed in a fashionable style like before, this made Ding Ning very happy, indicating that she had really come to her senses, and he would definitely help a girl like this who turned back to be a prodigal.

"Lao San, I'm here. Hey, Lao Liu, why are you here too?"

At this moment, the door of the bar was pushed open, and Zhuang Yan, carrying a guitar on his back and dressed like Elvis, walked in. When he saw Ding Ning, he shouted in surprise.

Immediately, he realized that the atmosphere at the scene was not right, and then he realized that there was someone stepping on Ding Ning's feet. He couldn't help but said in shock: "I'll go, even if you want to welcome me, there won't be such a big battle, right?"

"Come on, fourth child, you and third child go in first, and we'll talk later."

Ding Ning couldn't help but greeted Zhuang Yan, and nodded to the so-called "band members" following him as a greeting.

"Fourth, you're really here. Hey, forget it, tonight is probably the last time we're open for business, so just go ahead and make it to your heart's content."

Song Dong's bitter face became even more bitter, and he smiled bitterly.

Although Ding Ning was very confident, and he also knew that Ding Ning seemed to be doing well now, he didn't think he could really resolve this matter. After all, this young master Wu's background was too big for him to see.

to any hope of being able to compete.

"The last time we opened? What happened? Is it so serious..."

Although Zhuang Yan was unreliable, he was not stupid. He also saw that something was wrong at the scene. He mumbled with a dull look on his face. But when his eyes fell on Li Xiaoman's face, his words stopped suddenly and he was stunned.

He looked at her in disbelief and asked in a trembling voice: "Xiao...Xiaoman? Is it you? You...why are you here? Ah, your face...what's wrong with your face? Tell me,

Who hit him?"

Li Xiaoman stared blankly at Zhuang Yan, then burst into tears: "Brother Zhuang Yan, I... wu wu wu... I'm sorry!"

"If Xiaoman doesn't cry, who is it? Who beat you? Tell me, I want to kill him, kill him..."

Zhuang Yan reached out and put his hands on Li Xiaoman's shoulders, his whole body was trembling, his fingers were trembling as he wiped her tears, his eyes turned red, the veins on his forehead were beating wildly, and he was about to go berserk.

Ding Ning was confused, Song Dong was confused, and everyone was confused. They didn't know what was going on. Zhuang Yan actually knew Li Xiaoman, and it seemed that their relationship was not simple.

"A stinky bitch who is ridden by thousands of people still has people feeling sorry for her..."

Mr. Wu's girlfriend curled her lips and sneered.

Snap!

A loud slap hit Wu's girl friend on the face, causing her sarcasm to stop abruptly and she let out a sharp scream.

"Fuck you stinky bitch, you are the stinky bitch, your whole family is a stinky bitch, you bitch, how dare you scold my Xiaoman, all the parts of your body combined,

You are not as good as one finger of my sister Xiaoman, I will beat you bitch to death for daring to bully my Xiaoman."

Under the stunned gaze of everyone, Zhuang Yan was like a mad dog. With red eyes, he pulled Wu's friend's hair and pushed her to the ground. He rode on top of her and slapped her desperately. The painful Wu girl's friend let out a shrill scream.

cry.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Brother Zhuangyan, stop fighting. Stop fighting. If you fight again, someone will die."

Li Xiaoman screamed at the top of his lungs, his tears bursting out like a bursting flood, and he stepped forward to pull at the solemn force like a mad tiger.

In this cold world, only Zhuang Yan once brought her a glimmer of warmth. She was really afraid that Zhuang Yan would cause big trouble because of her.

Ding Ning and Song Dong looked at each other, completely Spartan. They had never seen Zhuang Yan like this before, which showed what kind of status Li Xiaoman had in his heart.

Zhuang Yan never fell in love during the four years of college, nor did he express his liking for that girl. He always went his own way, and was aloof from them, and he never got particularly close to anyone.

This made them once wonder if this guy had a problem with his sexual orientation, but now it seems that there seems to be a story in it.

However, what Ding Ning can't figure out is that Zhuang Yan is from Ninghai, while Li Xiaoman is from outside. Although the two schools are not far away from each other and are both in the university town, the two should have no intersection. At least, they

I have never found Zhuang Yan to be involved with any girls.

The two of them must have known each other before they went to college. Five years ago, Zhuang Yan was only eighteen or nineteen years old. Li Xiaoman was at most sixteen or seventeen at that time and probably had not yet come to Ninghai to go to school. How did these two people meet?

?It’s really puzzling.

"That's enough, stop. If we fight again, someone will be killed."

Li Xiaoman couldn't persuade Zhuang Yan at all. Seeing that Mr. Wu's girlfriend's face was covered with blood and she was dying and even stopped struggling, Ding Ning stepped forward and picked up Zhuang Yan's neck, pulled him up forcefully, and slapped him in his ear.

shouted.

Zhuang Yan struggled like an irrational beast. He gradually calmed down after being shouted at by Ding Ning. Still angry, he kicked Mr. Wu's girlfriend hard and spit on her.

On his face, he said angrily: "I never hit women, but a beast like you is no longer worthy of being called a woman. If you dare to bully Xiaoman again, I will kill you."

Mr. Wu's friends stood aside in trembling fear, not daring to let out a single fart. They could only secretly look at them with resentful eyes, secretly hoping that Mr. Wu's family would come over quickly and find someone else to do this.

"Let's sit down and chat somewhere first. I really don't understand how you met Li Xiaoman and what is the relationship between you."

Ding Ning took Zhuang Yan and Song Dong and found a booth to sit down under Liu Dali's attentive service.

Li Xiaoman also sat down next to Zhuang Yan, looking at Ding Ning with a hint of pleading in his eyes.

Ding Ning looked a little embarrassed. He knew that Li Xiaoman didn't want Zhuang Yan to know about her disgraceful past, but Zhuang Yan was his brother, and his relationship with Li Xiaoman seemed to be very unusual. He didn't want to hide it from his brother.

The pleading in Li Xiaoman's eyes gradually dissipated, and his eyes became gloomy little by little. Ding Ning couldn't bear it, so he could only make up his mind not to look at her. If Zhuang Yan didn't care about her past, he would naturally be willing to help them, but he couldn't tolerate Li Xiaoman going.

Deceit solemnity.

"Xiaoman is my sister."

The solemn look on his face was more serious than ever before. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a blurred look in his eyes.

Ding Ning and Song Dong were both shocked. Nani? Sister?

"But she's not a biological sister, not even a blood relationship."

Zhuang Yan's next sentence cleared up their confusion.

The story is ridiculous. It turns out that Zhuang Yan's father is not his biological father, but his stepfather, who is Li Xiaoman's biological father.

Zhuang Yan's mother is from Ninghai, and her biological father is from the same place as Li Xiaoman. Later, his biological father passed away due to an accident. Her mother accidentally met Li Xiaoman's father. The two fell in love for a long time, so she married him with Zhuang Yan.

, so the two of them are indeed brothers and sisters in name.

Although Li Xiaoman's father was divorced from her mother, they were still a husband and wife. After learning that his ex-wife married an inhumane person, he often visited Li Xiaoman and her mother, and occasionally brought Li Xiaoman to live with her at home for a while.

Zhuang Yan and Li Xiaoman, a pair of unrelated brothers and sisters, met each other because their parents reorganized their families. They can be regarded as childhood sweethearts.

However, after all, Li Xiaoman was awarded to the woman when she divorced, and he could not live in Zhuangyan's home for a long time. He would come to his father's house to live for a period of time every year.

Zhuang Yan's mother is a businessman. Out of market considerations, she decided to go back to Ninghai with Li Xiaoman's father to develop. Since the round trip was too far and it was inconvenient, her contact with Li Xiaoman gradually became less and less.

We lost contact with each other for seven or eight years.

It wasn't until the summer vacation of the year when Zhuang Yan was admitted to college that Li Xiaoman couldn't bear the harassment from his stepfather, so he ran away from home and came to Ninghai to find his father. Only then did he meet Zhuang Yan again.

Zhuang Yan was at the age when his love for Li Xiaoman first appeared, and he cared deeply for Li Xiaoman, giving birth to a strange feeling.

Li Xiaoman, who had been tortured in her hometown, also felt the long-lost warmth from him. Although she was only sixteen years old at the time, girls are relatively precocious, and the two actually fell in love with each other.
Chapter completed!