Chapter 388
Chapter 388 The Past Life
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After breakfast, Sebastian led Lillian into the garden. The rain had just cleared, leaving the air crisp and fresh, the sky a brilliant blue. The scent of damp earth lingered, mingling with the fragrance of flowers.
Watching the girl’s serene expression, Sebastian finally felt some of his tension ease.
Lillian’s gaze followed the butterflies fluttering among the blooms, her voice soft with longing. “My mother loved to sit quietly in the garden, staring off into the distance. When I was little, I never understood why. But as I grew older, I realized-she was yearning for freedom p>
Sebastian sat silently beside her, listening without interruption.
“My mother’s name was Catherine. She was Mr. Morgan’s adopted daughter. Because of her talent in medicine, Mr. Morgan forced Henry to marry her. They had no choice, so they lived more like polite strangers than husband and wife. By the time I turned six, my mother died in a car accident.
“She spent her short life without complaint, without hatred. She told me she owed the Sinclair family. Because Mr. Morgan had taken her in, she felt she had to devote herself to them. But she underestimated their coldness and selfishness. Even in death, they dragged her name through the mud p>
Lillian sighed deeply, then turned her gaze toward Sebastian. “Do you remember asking me why my master found me on the beach when I was eight? I never told you. I never told anyone -not even my master. It’s the secret buried deepest in my heart p>
Seeing the shadow in her eyes, Sebastian reached out quickly. “You don’t have to. I’ll wait. I’ll wait until the day you truly want to tell me p>
But Lillian shook her head with a faint, sorrowful smile. Her clear voice carried a quiet weight. “When I was eight, Vivian took me out. That’s when I was kidnapped by traffickers and sold to a mountain farmer. I suffered every kind of hardship there, I tried to escape, but the mountains were too vast, and I was too small. Eventually, I stopped running.
“I worked every day, beaten when I failed. Violence became routine. Do you know why I love spare ribs? Because in those years, the only time I ever tasted them was on New Year’s Eve. That was the best flavor of my childhood p>
Sebastian watched her smile, but the sight cut him like a blade. “Lillian, please,” he whispered, pained. “Don’t go on. Don’t hurt yourself by remembering p>
But she continued, her tone calm, as if recounting someone else’s story. “At sixteen, I was rescued and brought back to the Sinclair family. I thought my suffering was over. I didn’t know -it was only beginning.
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“I tried to win them over, to make them like me. But no matter how hard I tried, it was useless. Chloe framed me, and my reputation was destroyed.
“When I was eighteen, someone tried to throw acid at Chloe. She pulled me in front of her. My face was ruined in an instant. From that day on, I became the Sinclair family’s disgrace. I hardly ever stepped outside again.
“At twenty, during a Sinclair banquet, Chloe led her classmates into my room, then claimed I had frightened them by running out myself. Vivian told Henry I might scare the guests, so I should be locked away. I begged him, swore I wouldn’t step out of my room again-but he didn’t care. They imprisoned me. In that dark, endless place, I lost all hope of living.
“So I set a fire to end it. I thought I would finally be free. But instead, I woke to find myself alive again-back at eight years old. This time, I escaped from the traffickers, but they chased me to the top of a mountain. With nowhere left to run, I jumped.
“By sheer chance, my master found me and saved me p>
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