Chapter 789 - 15.8
"Maybe... Bai Gege wants my body?"
That question popped in Han Shun’s head, and he thought it was even more ridiculous.
"I am too dirty and ugly. Bai Gege could just buy someone better looking and cleaner from the town...." Han Shun thought. "But... I don’t think I have any other worth other than that. Maybe Bai Gege wants me to do that...."
Although he was only 8, Han Shun already knew the harsh life of street kids and prostitutes in the town. He saw plenty of young girls only a few years older than him already taking up old men clients, and even some of the boys around his age or slightly older.
He was just lucky because he didn’t look as good as them. Han Shun looked scrawny and dirty, so nobody looked at him twice, except for Bai Gege, of course.
Sometimes, he saw those prostitutes leave their clients crying or beaten up. Sometimes, he also saw the kids around his age who got sold left with only food for what they needed to do to please those old men.
Han Shun knew it was wrong to sell one’s body to someone’s else in exchange for favor or food, but one prostitute told him once;
’There is no choice for a street woman like me, like us. As long as I can eat for another day, then I will continue doing it.’
Han Shun also remembered how the woman gave him half of her bread, even though she was as scrawny as him.
Han Shun cast his eyes down, looking at his own reflection on the water. The grime on his face had been washed, and his shoulder-length unkempt hair had been cleaned as well. He still thought he looked ugly, but if Bai Gege wanted him...
Han Shun swallowed his saliva hardly, trying to curb his fear, "B—Bai Gege has given me a bowl of meat, that’s enough for everything...."