She turned her face around and shut her eyes tightly. She heard footsteps by her ear, and when she gradually got used to the light before her eyes, she opened them slowly. In the dim light, she opened her mouth; and her body started shaking.

It turned out that she did step on a person… a woman. At that time—in her surroundings, there were women sprawled everywhere. Subconsciously, she started looking for Shen Wei and felt someone touch her wrist; it seemed a little familiar. She did not even dare breathe too loudly and lowered her head carefully to take a look. In the dim light, she finally heaved a sigh of relief. It was Shen Wei.

“Time to eat,” someone said with a mix of English words. Bang! A large container was dropped on the floor. Xia Ruoxin felt her stomach grumble as she swallowed her saliva. She was hungry, very hungry.

The women around her stood up one by one and walked towards the wooden container. When Xia Ruoxin was about to stand up, a hand stopped her.

“Shh…” Shen Wei placed her finger on her lips, motioning to Xia Ruoxin to lower her head.

Xia Ruoxin moved towards her and heard Shen Wei whispering in her ear.

“Dirty your face and your hands. Don’t let them know what you look like; the dirtier the better. I have lipstick. Take it out and put some red dots on your face.”

Suddenly, Xia Ruoxin understood what she was saying.

After searching for quite some time, she finally found the lipstick. When no one was looking, she rubbed the floor for a while before putting mud on her face. Then, she took some more mud and smeared it on Shen Wei’s before dotting her face, making her face pockmarked.

Then, she used her body to block other people’s views and added quite a few red dots on Shen Wei’s face. Then, she helped Shen Wei up and followed the crowd to take their rice.

Her stomach was grumbling nonstop, and so was Shen Wei’s. Actually, she did not even know how long ago her last meal was.

A bowl of porridge was only left with clear soup at the end with no vegetable. One person had a hard biscuit each; they would not be full but would not die hungry as well.

Under the dim light, both she and Shen Wei had red dots on their black and ugly faces. The person who scooped the rice for them side-glared at them with much discrimination. It was also at this time that Xia Ruoxin had taken a clear look at everyone’s faces.

They were a group of people around thirty or forty, with some from the Eastern side, some from Western, and others were black. However, they were all women.

She then helped Shen Wei to a corner. After Shen Wei was done eating, she took out a bottle of medicine for her.

Shen Wei’s hands stopped in motion before taking the medicine, opening the cap, and pouring two out into her mouth. Then, she drank the porridge and ate the biscuit. The floor beneath them shook violently.

Xia Ruoxin was frightened until she broke out in cold sweat as she thought it was an earthquake.

“Don’t be afraid; we’re on a boat.”

Shen Wei said lightly before pressing onto her stomach and leaning against the wall. The floor below their feet kept shaking, and the rest were all used to being huddled together without much interaction.

Xia Ruoxin followed her to sit down, and one of her hands was holding tightly onto the medicine bottle. On this ship of unknown size—with women of unknown names and unknown backgrounds, they would either be killed after getting raped; or they would be floating on the ocean to an unknown location. However, that place would definitely be very far from her home country, away from everything she was familiar with.

She closed her eyes and suddenly, she wanted to cry. Her nose felt uncomfortable, and her tears fell continuously.

“Where are we going?” she asked, choking with emotions.

Shen Wei looked up and shook her head.

“I don’t know.”

All in all, there was no worst, only worse. Both of their fates were unknown.

At this time, at a place miles away… no… a place light years away, Du Jingtang was trying to pacify the fellow in his arms.

“Little Cutie, please don’t cry anymore.”

“Mommy, Mommy. I want Mommy.”

Rainy kept using her small hands to wipe her tears, and she cried until she lost her voice. However, no matter how much she cried, she could not find her mother. Meanwhile, Lin Qing stood at the side quietly and gloomily.

Rainy was still crying, and she cried so much until Du Jingtang grabbed a bunch of his hair. This would not do. He was going crazy, going crazy real soon.

With one hand carrying Rainy, he called his cousin on the other. “Brother, come here to see your daughter quickly. She’s going to cry until she dies. She’s so well-behaved normally, but when she starts crying, she won’t stop. She had cried for three hours already. She had shed so much tears; won’t she get dehydrated?”

Chu Lui was still working overtime in the office at that time. Once he heard it, he hurriedly dropped his work, took his jacket, and left.

“CEO, you still need to… have a meeting…”

Before the secretary could say ‘have a meeting’, the elevator had already gone down.

“Um, have a meeting…

“Have it? Or… not?”

…

Chu Lui arrived at Du Jingtang’s house worriedly, but before he even entered, he could hear Rainy’s cries. She cried until her throat was hoarse. She wanted her mother and called for her the whole time.

He pressed the doorbell, and almost immediately, the door opened. The person behind was holding something in his hands, and it was his Rainy.

“What’s wrong?” He carried his daughter in and used his palm to gently ruffle his daughter’s hair.

Rainy sniffed and buried her face in Chu Lui’s shoulders. She stopped crying, but her body kept shaking.

“She wants her mother.” Du Jingtang’s internal system was still hurting until now.

“Sister Ruoxin asked me to take care of this kid yesterday. She was pretty well-behaved when she first came and after sleeping for the night. When it was past ten, she started yelling for her mother. I gave Sister Ruoxin a call, but her phone was turned off. When this kid couldn’t hear her mother’s voice, she started crying; and once she cried, it was for a few hours. Who could take this?” He did not even go to work. Just to pacify the child.

“When did this happen?” Chu Lui knitted his brows together. Why did he not know about this at all?

“Yesterday, at around seven in the evening.” Du Jingtang shrugged his shoulders. “Didn’t you go on a business trip? You came back at midnight and were at the Chu family the whole time. I thought it was nothing much so I didn’t bother you.”