Inside the simple thatched hut, under the dim oil lamp, two women gnawed on meat buns, one spoke, the other listened.
All the beauty in Yin Le's life stopped at seventeen, the year she was abducted by bandits.
She was lucky to be saved by a benefactor and escape the bandit nest.
But she was also unfortunate; the relatives who doted on her for the first seventeen years turned their backs on her, one by one.
The sudden return of a woman who had disappeared for days inevitably prompted gossip among the neighbors.
But no matter how outsiders speculated, they would never know about her abduction by the bandits.
Because her benefactor truly kept her word, the government knew nothing about the woman who escaped from the bandit nest.
The only ones who knew were the Yin Family.
The day their daughter went missing, they tried to remain calm and return home, no one in the neighborhood knew the truth.
When Yin Le staggered to her doorstep, neighbors asked if she had visited relatives.
