Chapter 274 - 54: Asking for Votes
Yun Xiao stared with her cold, piercing eyes as tears fell mercilessly onto the bedding. She had been so cautious, yet she hadn’t realized that in front of Quan Shaoqing, she stood no chance, and everything was laid bare.
"Lift your head, look at me! You are a soldier, and you must bear the spirit of one. In this world, has anyone called you a monster?" Quan Shaoqing stood before her bed, his eyes commanding as he looked down at her, his tone shedding some of its harshness.
Yun Xiao still kept her head down, not understanding what Quan Shaoqing meant. Was he not afraid of her? Or did he not suspect her to be a monster?
It was a long while before she carefully lifted her head, her eyes filled with trepidation.
She saw Quan Shaoqing standing before her, upright and tall, broad and muscular, with bright phoenix eyes below thick eyebrows shining like stars, dazzling as the sun. Even so, she could not guess what he was thinking at that moment.
"Answer my question!" Quan Shaoqing commanded coolly.
"When I was a child, I was raised by a blind man. He said I was born enveloped in ice crystals, with snow flying in July, causing the death of my parents, and I was abandoned by the villagers in the wilderness as a monster. The blind grandfather who lived in a cave took pity on me and picked me up from the icy wilderness. When I turned six, he died, and I lived with a pack of wolves in the mountains. It was not until I was ten that an adventurer found and took me in. The blind grandfather said that I was different from others and should not let outsiders see my differences, or else they would treat me as a monster." Yun Xiao explained slowly, her voice trembling. Despite the education she had received and the many things she’d learned, there was no one else like her in her surroundings.
So, even though she knew she was not a monster, she dared not reveal her Special Ability to others.
Because the experience of being treated as a monster from a young age had left a profound and ingrained fear in her.
Quan Shaoqing could hear in her words the extraordinary experiences of her life: an orphaned child is the most pitiable. One could only imagine what kind of tragedy and pain such a girl had endured.