Lin Fan said softly, "That year, you were unhappy with your parents' arrangements. You went out every day to hang around with youths on the streets, staying out until late at night."
"Until one day, your mother slapped you and told you to get out, saying she would pretend she had never had a daughter like you."
"In a fit of anger, you ran far away from home. Since you had no money and were still young, you soon ended up truly living on the streets."
"But you checked the news every day, wanting to know whether your parents had put out a missing-person notice."
"Unfortunately, you never saw your mother go out looking for you!"
"Later, you met Wang Jun, and the two of you were abducted by criminals together."
After the criminals abducted her, Tu Lili was forced into prostitution. Lin Fan had already described what happened afterward.
Lin Fan knew that after Tu Lili returned to Pingzhou, she had made a point of investigating what had happened back then, visiting some old neighbors. But all the neighbors told her that her mother had never looked for her.
That was precisely why, although Tu Lili knew where her birth mother was, she had merely moved nearby without revealing who she was!
[Ragdoll Cat: If that's really what happened, that's even more reason not to reunite with her!]
[Ninety Below Zero: That's horrifying. Her daughter went missing, and she didn't even go out looking for her!]
[Boss Xiu: If my daughter went missing for six months, I'd probably be frantic.]
[Yilan: What a shame. If Auntie Fan had searched for her, might Tu Lili not have been abducted by those criminals later?]
[Nuannuan: Actually, I think Tu Lili might have been too extreme back then. Why did she choose