HP: Becoming a Maiden Heartthrob

Tom didn't do it, he ran back with the knife.

Early the next morning, before Martha came to call them, Li En went to the faucet to wash the blood off his chest, leaving a finger-long cut.

She pulled apart the torn cloth and looked at the wound inside. Only the surface skin was cut, and the skin turned red after the cloth absorbed the blood.

Alas, after reading it, she squatted beside the faucet and worried.

Why didn't he let her die?

Upstairs, inside the house, Tom looked through the window at the small figure squatting in the corner, and the scene at night appeared before his eyes.

Those peaceful eyes...

He clenched his fists.

She chose death without hesitation.

Li En...

*

Thanks to Li En's plea and Tom's relatively good performance, Tom was released early by Mrs. Cole within two weeks.

But he sat alone at the table.

No one dared to sit at the same table with him.

"Leen, look, there's a grain of wheat in my bread!"

"Lee En, do you want to try my bread?"

Li En sat with Aisha, surrounded by other children, in stark contrast to him.

Tom looked at Lee En.

Li En ignored him and started grinding his teeth with the black bread.

After breakfast, Mrs. Cole began to assign tasks.

The children in the orphanage usually have to do some chores to help earn money, such as delivering newspapers and milk, mowing the lawn and so on.

Normally, the boys were sent out to run errands, while the girls stayed in the orphanage to do handicrafts, like making matchboxes, but today Mrs. Cole had assigned tasks to both girls as well.

"Lean, Aisha, go and help Mr. Aykbery deliver the newspapers and mow his lawn," she said, looking at Lean.

Li En agreed obediently.

Tom, who had just stood up, stared at Mrs. Cole.

How dare she...

"Elsa, what should we do?"

After Mrs. Cole left, the other boys hurried off to do their work, and Lee En followed Aisha and asked.

She can't deliver newspapers or mow lawns.

"It's very simple. We have to go get the newspaper first. He will tell us the address of this gentleman. I will take you there," Aisha said with a giggle. She was much happier to do things with Li En than to do them alone.

"Aisha Benson."

But the next second, she couldn't laugh anymore because Tom came over.

He said, "Switch with me."

Elsa shrank back in fear, but she still stood beside Li En and said tremblingly, "I don't want to change."

Tom looked at her grimly.

"It's okay," Li En patted Aisha, "I'll go with him, you don't have to worry."

"Leen," Aisha grabbed her, scared and frustrated that she couldn't protect her.

"It's okay," Li En patted her again.

Tom couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he walked over, grabbed Li En's hand and pulled her away.

"Leen!"

Elsa's voice could be heard from behind them.

"Don't look back!"

Tom growled, his grip on her tightening.

Li En didn't say anything or move, and let him take him away.

But instead of taking her to get the newspaper, Tom took her to his room and locked her up.

"I'm going to deliver the newspapers and mow the lawn," he locked her in and warned her sternly, "You are not allowed to come out today and you are not allowed to complain, otherwise -"

He pulled his snake from his pocket, "I'll let it bite you!"

Put, the little snake that was taken out by its owner at first, looked at Li En with his eyes wide open.

Li En took a few steps back.

She hated these slippery creatures the most.

Actually, the little snake Putt who had been secretly protecting her for several days: ...

It turned its head and hissed at Tom a few times, asking its master what he wanted it to do.

"Keep an eye on her," Tom hissed back, letting it do its thing, and then throwing it to the ground.

Little Snake Put: ...

The real chill is never about making a fuss.

It still swam over and hissed at Li En.

Li En shrank back and sat on Tom's bed.

Tom was very satisfied with the intimidating effect the little snake had on her. He walked up to her, grabbed the end of her hair and warned her, "If you're scared, remember, don't go out, Li En. Got it?"

Li En looked at Tom in confusion. She really didn't understand what he meant by doing this. He certainly didn't want to lock her up again, because Mrs. Cole would not let him off easily. But when he turned to leave, she grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"I see," she said, understanding vaguely. "This Mr. Aykbery wants to adopt a child, right? Mrs. Cole wants Aisha and me to go there so he can observe us."

Tom froze.

He kind of hated how smart she was.

"Then I must go even more," Li En said. In this era, people who have lawns and read newspapers at home are not only rich, but also powerful.

"You!" Tom grabbed her, annoyed at her disobedience. "You won't leave me! You're mine!"

The little snake Put also raised its triangular head and stuck out its tongue.

"Let's go together," Li En coaxed him into giving him a good shake of the head, "I'll let him adopt you."

"What?" Tom looked at her in shock, not expecting her to do this.

Of course that was good; he'd heard others talk about how being adopted would be better off.

but……

He thought of those who came to adopt him but were persuaded to leave by Mrs. Cole, and those who looked at him with strange eyes. He gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want to be adopted. I don't want to be adopted!"

Li En paused, he really couldn't understand why the boy would resist being adopted. Judging from the pile of stuff he collected in his closet, he was not a child who liked poverty.

All she could say was, "Don't you want to have pudding every day?"

Although that thing wasn't that delicious.

Tom paused.

Li En saw an opportunity and continued, "There are better things than pudding, milk, eggs, steak." She said something he might have seen, "I told you, the life those nobles lead..."

Her tone was full of seduction.

Tom gradually loosened his grip on her, his brows furrowed in a knotted frown.

Li En narrowed his eyes slightly and added, "Oh, and there are books. The study there is full of bookshelves filled with books, the kind you can't even see, just like the stories I told you."

Tom let her go.

Li En knew he had succeeded.