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Chapter 774

Author: Lilting Champ
last update Last Updated: 2023-11-30 14:28:32
This was the first time Leia took the initiative to explain her stance.

Ethan was sitting before the tea table brewing tea. "Fire away."

She looked at the patterns on the teapot. "That year, I lost my way and was sold to the mountains. I had a rough time over there.

"I was fortunate enough to be able to escape from there …"

She glossed over her suffering instead of going into the details. Ethan asked, "How did you escape?"

The information he managed to find was only on the surface. There was no detailed description written.

Still, she didn't go into the details. "Easy. I planned for it for a long time. I hid a lighter to light up the stored hay. They were poor, so there wasn't much hay for me to burn. But …"

She paused momentarily before continuing, "Before I burned the hay, I locked that family up in a room, and they burned alive. I walked for a month to get out of the mountains.

"Since I was burned, everyone saw me as a monster. I was lucky enough to bump into a kind person
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