"Come closer, take a look! Don't miss out as you pass by! I need to sell quickly-not a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, not ninety thousand, just eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins! Take this girl home!"
As Spirit Hall's Golden Generation passed along a street, they found it badly congested, with a sizable crowd gathered there. On a raised platform, a middle-aged man as thin as a rake was shouting with all his might.
Beside the middle-aged man sat a girl in ragged clothes, though she looked relatively clean. Her head was lowered as she sobbed softly.
"Dad, don't sell me! Don't sell me!"
"Dad?"
Hu Liena's heart jolted. "He's actually that girl's father?"
Huff...
A biological father was selling his own daughter in the street. Had Hu Liena not seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed it, even if someone beat her to death.
"Be good, daughter. Once I have money, I'll gamble again. This time, I'm sure I can win back everything I lost. Then I'll buy you back." The middle-aged man's eyes were hollow. His daughter's pleas stirred not a trace of pity or reluctance in him.
"Anyone want to bid? My daughter's still a virgin! At the Heaven Dou Auction House, she'd fetch at least a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins or more. If I weren't in a hurry to sell, I'd never let her go this cheap!" the middle-aged man shouted.
"You beast! Selling your own daughter in the street in broad daylight!" Hu Liena was beside herself with rage, her fists clenched tight. She had barely taken a step forward to teach the middle-aged man a lesson when Su Chen caught her hand.
"Even if you save her, tomorrow, the day after, and the day after that, other girls will