After the divorce, I trained my dog, and the scumbag father and son knelt down at my door.

Yan Niannian went to the child closest to her.

It was a little boy.

He was about six or seven years old, but due to being sold multiple times and suffering from long-term malnutrition, he was very thin, skinny, and tiny.

He was huddled in a corner, frowning in pain.

Her face turned incredibly red.

Yan Niannian's heart tightened, and she raised her hand to touch his forehead.

hot!

Hot!

He has a fever.

"Child, child, how are you feeling?" Yan Niannian hugged the child in her arms and called his name softly.

"Mommy mommy……"

The little boy was delirious with fever, and in his dream, he saw his mother.

He instinctively gripped Yan Niannian's hand tightly.

The embrace was so warm that he even felt a long-lost sense of maternal love.

Is it... his mother coming to pick him up?

Hey!

What a poor kid.

Yan Niannian felt a pang of sadness and couldn't bear to push him away. Instead, she let him lean against her chest and patted his head tenderly.

Zhuo Xuan, who was standing next to him, had already widened his eyes.

I was incredibly jealous.

He clenched his fists and glared angrily at Yan Niannian.

How could she do this?

She couldn't even see herself standing right there, but instead she was being nice to a little beggar.

Is this how she acts as her mother?

"Mom! What are you doing? I'm hungry and cold, can't you see that?" Zhuo Xuan shouted angrily, hands on his hips.

Yan Niannian frowned.

She is checking on the condition of the remaining three children.

Neither side is particularly optimistic.

At this moment, hearing Zhuo Xuan's insensible chatter again, he felt annoyed.

"Zhuo Xuan, can you be quiet for a second? Your father is outside, go find him!" Yan Niannian's tone became a little harsher.

"you you……"

Zhuo Xuan's face turned red with anger. Unable to let go of his pride, he turned to run away.

But before he could even take a step, Zhuo Xuan was so startled that he froze on the spot.

A man with a cane was standing at the entrance, blocking the way.

The other person's pants were completely stained red with blood on one thigh.

His face was frighteningly pale, like a dead man, but his eyes were filled with murderous intent. He didn't even look at him, but stared fiercely at Yan Niannian.

Zhuo Xuan had never seen anything like this before, and his voice trembled, "Mom...Mom..."

"what happened again?"

Yan Niannian turned her head impatiently.

She was stunned when she saw the man blocking the doorway.

After realizing what was happening, Yan Niannian quickly rushed to Zhuo Xuan's side and pulled him behind her to protect him.

Biting her lip, Yan Niannian glared at the man warily.

My heart sank.

Unexpectedly, this beast was able to stand up by sheer willpower.

How to do?

Now that Zhuo Yuchen and his group are ahead, she is isolated and helpless. How can she protect herself and her children?

"Ha!" The man sneered, his teeth grinding together. "I never thought that after all these years, I'd end up having my eyes pecked out by a little sparrow like you."

"Great! That's wonderful!"

Yan Niannian tried to persuade him to pull back from the brink, saying, "You have no way out."

"As long as you repent and reform yourself, you can still live a good life in this world after you get out, right?"

"Alive?" The man's eyes remained fierce, but the mocking smile on his lips deepened. "Foolish woman, do you really think I care about my own life?"

As they spoke, the noise from the front yard gradually subsided.

The man looked up at the sky.

A tear glistened in the corner of her eye, a hint of loneliness faintly visible.

He knew his brothers had lost, and his era was coming to an end...

"Hmm?" Yan Niannian's heart skipped a beat as she watched his reaction.

He thought to himself, "Oh no!"

Sure enough, the man suddenly shouted, "Even if I die, I'll take you all down with me!"

In a moment of lucidity, he threw down his cane and rushed straight towards the gas cylinder.

"do not want!"

Yan Niannian was shocked and rushed over to stop her.

The two men wrestled with each other.

"Mom! Mom!" Zhuo Xuan was terrified and burst into tears.

The commotion woke up the other children, including the little boy who had just developed a fever.

The children's faces were filled with fear.

The punches and kicks really hurt a lot.

But Yan Niannian didn't utter a sound. She turned her head with difficulty and shouted at Zhuo Xuan and the other children, "What are you all standing there for? Run! Run now!"

The children came to their senses and stumbled out of the side room and into the yard.

Seeing Yan Niannian still struggling with the man, Zhuo Xuan stamped his feet anxiously, "Mom, Mom, stop fighting, come out quickly!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Niannian turned her head to check if the children were all safe.

Of the five children, four ran away.

Apart from……

The little boy who just had a fever.

He was so weak.

So she only crawled two steps on the ground before she ran out of strength. Tears kept welling up in her eyes, and the glimmer of hope in her eyes gradually dimmed.

His face was filled with despair.

Since he was old enough to understand things, he has been sold from one place to another, without a home or a sense of security.

My memories are filled with beatings, scoldings, and hunger.

Even so, he never gave up on himself, like a blade of grass in a storm trying to live well.

But now...

Even this pitiful opportunity was denied him by fate.

The little boy resignedly lay on the ground, curled up helplessly, tears streaming silently down his face.

Yan Niannian's heart clenched as her gaze fell on the little boy.

No!

No matter what, she would not give up on him.

"Don't be afraid, Auntie won't abandon you. Trust Auntie, Auntie will definitely take you away with her," Yan Niannian said gently to the little boy.

At the same time, she tried to force a smile at him.

She was in so much pain that the curve of her lips looked unnatural.

"what?"

The little boy looked up at Yan Niannian in disbelief.

Shocked in my heart.

An unprecedented warm current quickly spread throughout his body.

No one ever cared about him.

This was the most beautiful smile he had ever seen in his life.

No!

It's rare for someone to care about him; he can't become a burden to his aunt.

Thinking of this, the little boy first nodded to Yan Niannian, then gritted his teeth and crawled out little by little with his hands and feet.

Seeing this, Yan Niannian felt comforted.

She gritted her teeth and continued to fight the beast.

Zhuo Xuan was dumbfounded.

For some reason, even though I felt less afraid at that moment, tears kept flowing down my face.

My heart suddenly felt empty.

It's as if a large chunk has been forcibly removed from him; it's as if he's lost the most precious thing in the world.

She couldn't understand why her mother would fight bad people and risk her life for a little beggar, even though she was her biological child.

After dealing with the two human traffickers, Zhuo Yuchen arrived.

At that moment, an unexpected event occurred.

The man shoved Yan Niannian away, ripped the pipe off the gas cylinder, and turned on the valve.

The smell of gas quickly filled the air.

Stab it!

The man pressed the button on his lighter, and a pale blue flame quickly shot up, but he threw it over without hesitation.

"Haha! You slut, let's go to hell together!" The man's eyes turned bloodshot as he laughed maniacally.