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Chapter 176

Chapter 176 The Door God Guarded All Night

Mia’s full name was Mia Thatcher, she was a good friend of my mother’s when they were young. Even

though they didn’t live in the same city when they grew up, they always kept in touch. When I was a

child, my mother would often take me to visit our elders in our hometown of Dracview, and she would

also often take me to visit her. Mia was very beautiful, and it seemed that beautiful women often had

more difficult lives.

That was the case with Mia. As a teenager, she fell in love with a senior from her school and became

pregnant prematurely after tasting the forbidden fruit. For a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl to be

pregnant before marriage, especially in a small city thirty years ago, was not accepted. Moreover, the

boy she loved was an irresponsible

man.

In order to have a child, Mia dropped out of school early. After severing ties with her parents, she gave

birth to a daughter on her own. Later, in order to raise her child, she never considered getting married

again. I used to think that she probably wouldn’t get married again, but unexpectedly, she did when she

was in her fifties or sixties.

I nodded at my mother and said, “Okay, you guys go ahead, I’m fine. But, how many days will you be

gone?”

Mother pondered and said, “At least three or four days. Alexander mentioned that his hometown seems

to be over there, I was thinking of going to see it with him.”

I was somewhat surprised and said to Alexander, “Is your hometown also in Dracview?”

Alexander nodded, casually saying, “When I entered the orphanage, I

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was already over ten years old and still remembered some things. My parents died in a landslide

accident at that time. The orphanage in Dracview was too crowded, so I had to be sent to River City.

Auntie Eileen said she was going, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to go and see.”

The mountain collapsed!

I didn’t know if I was being overly sensitive, but my heart couldn’t help but skip a beat. Regarding

Alexander’s background, I didn’t know much. The only thing I knew was that my father had funded his

education. As for the rest, I had never asked.

I didn’t expect him to blurt it out suddenly.

Seeing me silent for a moment, he raised his hand and tapped my forehead, saying, “Don’t look at me

with such sympathetic eyes, my days are going well, not miserable.”

I smirked, feigning

you? I was just the difference, and said, “Who’s sympathizing with

you? I was just thinking about the landslide you mentioned. I seem to remember my dad talking about it

before.”

Mother sat down beside us and said, “This happened ten years ago. It was reported daily in the

newspapers at that time. They said there was a hill in Dracview, called Mount Snake, and half of it

collapsed overnight. They said it was due to tectonic movement, a natural disaster. It’s a pity that those

people were buried in the mountain just like that.”

Mount Snake, the Hinton family.

I felt somewhat choked up for a moment.

I still clearly remember Dale’s words, it wasn’t any crustal movement, it was a mining disaster, which

claimed the lives of more than three

hundred people.

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The fate of this world was always so ingenious, I never thought that Alexander was the victim of that

mining disaster, and his parents were among those three hundred people.

Watching him stuff his mouth full of shrimp dumplings, I felt an indescribable lump in my throat. He

could have grown up like me, with parents by his side. He could have avoided the orphanage, could

have gone to school without relying on others’ charity, but…

“What’s wrong with you?” Seeing me staring at him, Alexander frowned at me, “You haven’t recovered

yet, have you?”

I shook my head, shifted my gaze, and forced a smile, saying, “I’m fine. By the way, do you have any

relatives in Dracview?”

He shook his head, indifferent, “If I had relatives back then, I wouldn’t have been sent to the

orphanage. Auntie Eileen and I went this time just to take a look. After the incident, half of the mountain

collapsed. Their bodies were buried in the mountain. The people who went to find them didn’t find

them, so I haven’t paid my respects all these years.”

I grunted in response, not continuing the conversation.

I really didn’t know how to tell him about the events of that year. If he knew that the disaster was not a

natural calamity, but a man-made one, would he…

The topic itself was quite heavy. Even though Alexander appeared indifferent, I still felt it and didn’t

continue to talk to him about it.

After he swallowed the food in his mouth, he looked at me with a gossiping expression and said, “It

seemed like there was a door god downstairs at the Conner family’s place last night. It stayed all night

and didn’t leave until dawn. Did you know?”

Realizing he was talking about Walter, I casually responded, “Oh!”

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Then I quickly changed the subject by praising my mother’s improved

cooking skills. Seeing this, he pursed his lips and stopped talking.