The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)
Chapter 1686

"What have you gone through?"

Rachel felt somewhat speechless.

In fact, she had thought about what would happen to a three-year-old child after they were lost. She just comforted herself when she saw Carmel standing in front of her, safe and sound.

Maybe Carmel was just lucky or she was protected by the ancestors of the Liu family.

But Carmel had countless things she didn't want to talk about, but now she had to tell Rachel about it.

Carmel sneered and said, "I was only three years old. I remembered very clearly that a bearded man told me that my aunt was waiting for me and asked me to go with him. I didn't go, so he covered my mouth with a handkerchief and I lost consciousness because of the pungent smell. When I woke up again, I found myself in a valley in the home of a poor family. The so-called home was a shack and they bought me."

"I thought that I finally had a home. I didn't care even if they weren't my own parents or if I'm in a strange environment. After all, I'm not alone. Can you understand how a toddler would feel if they wake up in a strange environment? I was afraid and I shouted for you to save me, but was beaten to a pulp."

"That man was so fierce and he whipped me until I bled from multiple wounds on my body. I passed out after being beaten, but no one cared about my life. When I woke up, I was thrown on straw and it was so cold. Did you think that was the worst thing that happened? No, it wasn't."

Carmel's hands were clasped tightly together. Her eyes were bloodshot and she said word by word, "That family had a sick son. They didn't have money to treat their son, so they could only go to the mountain to pick herbs. But they were not doctors, so they didn't know what kind of herbs were useful for their son's illness. Their purpose of buying me was just to test out herbs for their son!"

"Every time she wanted to feed her son some herbs, I had to eat it first. She would only give it to her son when I had no reaction. But most of the time, I couldn't stop vomiting because of the pain and I wanted to die immediately. But I miraculously survived every time. At that time, did you ever think that your niece would experience this?"

Carmel was completely stunned.

She had never thought about these things!

She really didn't!

She thought that the most miserable thing that could happen to Carmel was to be kidnapped by traffickers and thrown on the street to beg, so she had been looking for the child beggars on the street all these years. However, there had been no news at all.

She didn't know that this could happen! Carmel was even worse off than those kids!

Tears instantly welled up in Rachel's eyes.

Carmel smiled brightly instead and there was water in her eyes.

"Did you know? I spent four years like this! I didn't expect to grow up quickly and I even hoped that I could die quickly so I could escape. That village was very far away from the suburbs. I once tried to escape, but I failed. After I was caught, I was beaten up badly again. Later when I was seven years old, my adoptive father tied me up when my adoptive mother was not at home. He molested me and he even kissed me. Do you know how I felt at that time?"

"Stop talking! Just stop!"

Rachel felt that she couldn't listen to Carmel any more or she would go crazy.

Carmel still smiled and said, "I thought that I must have done a grave sin in my past life and I was being punished for it. My adoptive mother came back and saw what her husband did to me. Not only did she not blame him, but she punished me instead. She blamed me for seducing him. How could a seven-year-old child learn how to do that? Did he need to tie me up if I consented to it?"

"Stop, Carmel."

"Why should I? You can't bear to listen anymore? I killed my adoptive father with my own hands when I was eight years old and stabbed my adoptive mother. I took away all their money and walked the mountains for three days and nights before I could find a bus stop. I sat the bus to the suburbs and passed out at the entrance of the welfare home because I was starving. Do you think that I'm still not fit to be a member of the Liu family?"

Carmel said word by word, "The Liu family is cruel and merciless. I inherited this trait very well. My adoptive parents raised me for four years, but I can still kill them without hesitation. So why do you think I'm not from this family? Hmm?"

Her voice was very soft and gentle, but it carried a sense of pressure so great that it was suffocating.

"Carmel!"

At last, Nanny Liu couldn't help but run out from behind the wall and hug her daughter as she cried uncontrollably.

"Why didn't you tell me? Why? You've been back for so long, but why didn't you tell me that you have suffered so much since you were a child? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have entrusted you to another person! It's my fault!"

Nanny Liu hugged Carmel tightly as if she was afraid that her daughter would disappear as soon as she let go.

This was her daughter!

She had been pregnant with Carmel for ten months and she lover her dearly.

Who would have thought that Carmel would experience this?

Rachel was a little surprised by the sudden appearance of her mother. "Nanny Liu, I..."

"Get lost! Rachel, Frank and I have been supporting and defending you all these years. I felt that you have lost so much for the sake of the Liu family and we always doted on you. But I found out that you abandoned my daughter today! It was you! You made my daughter a lab rat at such a young age and she was even sexually abused! How could you do this? You loved Carmel so much because you lost our son, so we entrusted her to you. You promised us that you would bring Carmel back, but what happened in the end? It was you who left my daughter alone! You let me and my brother suffer after we lost Carmel every day, but you didn't tell us the truth! If you told us the details about Carmel's loss, we wouldn't search for the wrong clues and let my daughter suffer so much for no reason! How can you even suspect that our daughter is not from the Liu family?

Nanny Liu questioned Rachel in a tearful voice and the latter didn't know how to defend herself at all.

Frank also heard everything in the room and his face was covered with tears.

He had always pitied his little sister and supported her at all costs over the years, but she was the one who abandoned his daughter!

It was ridiculous!

All the things he had suffered all over the years were like a slap to his face!

The Liu family!

Was this their so-called unity?