Chapter 200 - 192: Two Extremes
Children without mothers are the most pitiable.
That day, Ding Luoluo was once again falsely accused by her younger sister of stealing and wearing her new dress. Her sister made a big fuss, and their father, who had just stepped into the house, scolded her without asking any questions, criticizing her for lacking the demeanor of an older sister and pointing at her nose, telling her to get out.
Ding Luoluo, feeling utterly wronged and without even getting to eat, impulsively ran out of the house. No one came after her, and she hid helplessly behind some low bushes in the courtyard, crying to herself, only to coincidentally be stumbled upon by Zhang Min.
The bond between people is really quite miraculous.
Normally, Ding Luoluo’s personality was exactly the kind that Zhang Min disliked the most, but that day, when Zhang Min caught sight of the girl hiding behind the bushes, crying with snot and tears all over her face, looking disheveled and frail, something inside her was touched. She felt a heart-piercing pain and approached the girl, using every bit of patience to coax and deceive her into being "picked up" and taken home.
From then on, for thirty days in a month, Ding Luoluo would spend twenty-eight or twenty-nine of those days living at the Pei family’s home, where she had her own independent bedroom, decorated far more exquisitely than her sister’s.
Her new clothes and dresses were not only more numerous than Ding Tiantian’s but also prettier, with many being specially sent from the Magic Capital by Zhang Min. The extent to which she was favored in the Pei family even surpassed that of the Pei family’s only male, Pei Kun—the little overlord who was always up to mischief with a group of kids around the neighborhood.
As for the Ding family, after Pei family’s patriarch personally visited Ding Junshan to discuss letting Ding Luoluo spend more time at their home to accompany his lonely wife, Ding Junshan was so flattered that he didn’t know what to do with himself and couldn’t say a word against it. In fact, he wished he could pack up his eldest daughter and send her off to the Pei family right away.