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 epted. 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 andslide


    ident 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 copsed!


    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 thendslide you mentioned. I seem to remember my dad talking about it


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    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


    copsed 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


    imed 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


    rtives in Dracview?”


    He shook his head, indifferent, “If I had rtives 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


    copsed. 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 cmity, 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 cest 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.