Chapter 177

The teenager asked, “Why did you help me?” Sienna did not answer his question. She squatted down, picked up a roasted sweet potato from the ground and said lightly, “It’s not too much for me to take this as a thank you gift, right?” Having said that, she got into a taxi that was parked by the side of the road and left. The taillights from the car disappeared into the empty street. The teenager looked at the roasted sweet potatoes that had rolled all over the ground, then remembered the ‘thank you’ that Sienna had taken away. For the first time ever, he felt his chest being filled with various mixed emotions. He did not have such emotions when he was getting beaten up on the ground to the point where his whole body was bruised and swollen. He did not have such emotions when he lost all faith in this gloomy and obscure life. However, he felt a lump rising in his throat as he felt respected. He was being treated as an equal. The middle-aged woman picked up the stall as she ask