Chapter 196: Chapter 194: Complicated Relationships
"Aren’t you in Wyen? What are you doing here?" Luna asked.
Being asked this, Elliana wasn’t as excited anymore and said, "I’m here to find my..." In the end, she didn’t say she was there to find her sister.
At that moment, she had another idea and quickly asked her benefactor in front of her, "Benefactor, can you shelter me for one night? I’ll go out to find a job tomorrow. I’ve run out of money after coming to North City."
After all, this person saved them, and she believed her benefactor would definitely take her in.
Luna and Elliana exchanged a glance, the two "wolves" were a bit surprised. Originally, they were trying to find a way to stall Elliana, not expecting the sheep to walk into their trap on her own.
"Sure, come with us," Luna agreed readily.
After getting in the car, Elliana heard a rumbling sound from the stomach, clearly, that rumbling wasn’t from her and Luna.
Although Elliana had eaten a cup of instant noodles, she still wasn’t full and was covering her stomach awkwardly at this moment.
At this time, Elliana said, "Luna, let’s go get something to eat."
"Alright."
After starting the car, the person driving hesitated, then asked Luna, "How do I drive the car out?"
Luna: "..."
―――The Restaurant.
They arrived at the restaurant, and Elliana ordered a large table of late-night snacks, only to end up being able to eat just one garlic crayfish.
It was only after ordering that she realized she needed to avoid it!
Elliana appeared a bit restrained, not quite daring to start eating, and the first chopstick only picked cilantro from the spicy crayfish.
Finally, under Elliana’s enthusiasm, she picked up the first crayfish. Honestly, it was her first time eating crayfish, although Holy Spring Town had these late-night snacks, but they were too expensive, so she never had them.
Only now did she know what crayfish tasted like.
Halfway through the meal, Elliana’s phone rang.
She quickly put down her chopsticks, covered the phone, and said to the two, "I’ll take a call."
With that, she took her phone, left her seat, and took the call at the door.
"Hello, what’s up?"
Bella’s voice on the other end was urgent, "Have you arrived yet? Hurry up!"
Hearing her sister’s irritable tone, she said, "I’m not coming. I’m having dinner with friends."
"Friends? What friends? Male or female? Where are you? I’ll pick you up."
Though Bella’s tone was urgent and angry, it also revealed concern.
And this concern, Elliana didn’t perceive at all, instead, she felt even more repulsed, "I don’t need you to pick me up. The friend is a girl."
"A girl? What’s her name, where is she from? How old is she? Don’t get tricked by someone!" Bella feared that her sister would be tricked into a bad place, ending up like her.
To placate Bella, Elliana said, "My friend’s name is Luna, she’s the same age as me. I won’t talk to you anymore! Hanging up now."
"Wait!" Bella was shocked upon hearing the name Luna and quickly said, "Where are you? I’ll come get you. Luna is no good, she’s getting close to you with a motive!"
Hearing this, Elliana got angry immediately, and also felt somewhat wronged. She was sure her sister couldn’t possibly know Luna.
So hearing Bella say this, Elliana felt repulsed and immediately mocked, "Just because you’re no good, you assume others aren’t either?"
Hearing this, Bella cursed silently and finally said angrily, "You’re an idiot! Don’t you know you could get me killed? Quickly tell me where you are!"
"How did I harm you? Clearly, you’re the one who harmed me!" Elliana’s tone was somewhat agitated, and her voice was loud enough for the two people inside the room to hear clearly.
On the other end of the line, Bella was silent for a long time before finally saying, "Yes, I’m sorry. Now, could you tell me where you are, please? Sister."
Beeeep―――!
Elliana hung up the phone immediately, and a tear fell down.
After returning to the table, facing the concern of the two, she couldn’t help but feel more aggrieved.
Elliana went to close the private room door, then sat next to Elliana, patted her shoulder soothingly, and said gently, "Don’t cry, don’t cry, did something happen?"
"Boo hoo hoo..." Sometimes it’s like this, when no one cares, you can endure, but once someone shows care, you feel even more wronged.
After crying for quite a while, Elliana took the tissue that Elliana handed her, blew her nose, and said chokingly, "It was my sister calling, I hate her!"
"Why?" Elliana asked in surprise.
Maybe it was because Elliana seemed so approachable, that Elliana, this naive girl, poured everything out.
"When I was a kid, my sister had an incident, and everyone in town knew about it." Elliana didn’t elaborate on what the incident was, possibly because it was hard to talk about.
She choked up and continued, "She went on living well outside, but my parents were criticized by everyone, and grandma died from anger that very day! Boo hoo..."
Talking about the sad part, Elliana cried again, pausing for a long time before continuing, "Afterwards, people in town scolded me when they saw me, until gradually it got a bit better. Originally, I could have studied well and gone to college!"
"But because everyone looked at me with biased eyes from both the inside and outside, people in town often insulted me and my studies plummeted, in the end, I could only attend a district vocational school."
"Don’t cry anymore, don’t cry... things will get better." Elliana comforted softly.
Luna listened without any expression, not because she didn’t feel sorry for Elliana’s experience, but because she was pondering what exactly happened with Bella back in the day.
Clearly, Elliana didn’t want to talk about it.
"I hate her! But I also feel... I shouldn’t hate her, she supported my education and gave me money for living expenses..."
Ever since being kidnapped, Elliana suddenly started to understand Bella, but sometimes she still couldn’t help but hate.
From it, Elliana learned roughly what had happened, but she didn’t know the specifics, so she didn’t comment, simply patting Elliana’s shoulder lightly, trying to provide some comfort.
...
―――Meanwhile.
Bella squatted beside the flower bed in the residential area, crying, her suitcase was also damaged, it was something she smashed just now.
Elliana’s words still hurt her, she felt guilty yet aggrieved, she had clearly given up her studies early to venture out, just to let this sister of hers continue her education.
At the time, the family couldn’t afford it. If she continued studying, Elliana wouldn’t be able to, not to mention having a precious brother held dearly by their parents.
But ever since she had that incident, everything changed, and even though the family scolded and resented her, they never hesitated to ask her for money.
She endured the insults because of guilt, wanting to mend this broken kinship.
When she had her incident, Elliana’s first call was to comfort her, but eventually, it turned into mockery and insults, and their relationship worsened.
Whenever she wanted to discipline Elliana, this sister always felt she wasn’t qualified, constantly rubbing salt in her wounds.
Perhaps because Elliana’s first call comforted her, she indulged this sister in particular, but in the end, their relationship still couldn’t return to what it was.
And now, she could leave it all behind, but because Elliana was in Luna’s hands, she couldn’t just leave without doing anything.
But her sister’s stubbornness filled her with frustration and despair!
Finally, she wiped away her tears, extinguished the cigarette in her hand, picked up her phone from the ground with red-rimmed eyes.
"The number you have dialed is busy, please try again later..."