A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

In the days that followed, Donny treated Emily very well. He provided for whatever she needed - food, medicines, comfort. Donny kept his father at bay and tried to make Emily feel as comfortable as he could.

As Emily tried to make conversation with Donny one day, he nodded at her, trying to comprehend what she was saying. "Tell me what I can do for you?" he asked, as that was all he could offer to her in exchange for her willingness to play with him.

"Nothing, yet." she said. Emily knew Donny would never hurt her but she decided not to reveal too much as his mother was not as kind and genuine as him.

They played together for a while before Mrs. Yang appeared at the door, "Donny, we are going to harvest potatoes. Do you want to join us?" asked Mrs. Yang.

"Of course!" Donny answered, excitedly.

"Okay, good boy," said Mrs. Yang, who always treated him like his little boy. Mrs. Yang's eyes were warm with motherly love until they landed on Emily. Reluctantly, she said, "Hey, you... come with us too. We never feed idle people."

"Umhm.. Got it." Emily nodded her head lightly, feeling obliged and dutiful.

But Donny disagreed with his mother, refuting, "Mommy, how can you make my fairy do such hard labor? She is so beautiful. My fairy. She shouldn't work!"

"Oh, is it? Who will support your fairy if she doesn't do her part? You? What would you do? Give her your food and starve?" she asked back. One could detect the casual contemptuousness regarding Emily in her voice.

"Of course I will! I support her," Donny said with that serious conviction of a child, puffing out his chest with pride. "I swear to support her," he repeated.

Mrs. Yang was amused at her little boy's determination and pulled his ear gently, saying, "Right now, you yourself need my support. How will you support others? You really are going to follow the old saying, 'once the son is married, the mother is forgotten!' Hahahahaha," laughed Mrs. Yang.

'You have not married her yet, my silly boy. How could you protect her like this?' Mrs. Yang thought in her mind. For one second, she even did not know whether it was right or not to keep Emily here.

Her smiling eyes shifted to Emily, becoming narrow and cunning. "You'd better not try to escape. This is our territory. You cannot escape! Don't even think of it!" She pointed her forefinger at her, intimidating.

"My fairy will not escape, mother. She likes me. She is different from all the other girls here..." Donny refuted loudly, grabbing her mother's arm.

fine, fine. Got it. My silly boy! How could you fully

for Emily, she got a chance to finally step out of the room. The arrangement was that one of her ankles would

very smart but had brute force in his body. Mrs. Yang was convinced Emily wasn't strong enough to

was also to show off Emily in front of other villagers. 'What a beautiful girl Donny will marry!' She imagined others saying behind them. Mrs. Yang thought of the stupid girls of the village, who despised her boy. Surely, they would be jealous when they see

just as they had wanted. It was surprising no one cared about the rope around Emily's ankle, almost

villagers thought she was beautiful, and also believed she would surely escape if she got a chance. That was exactly why she had

almost impossible for a weak creature like her to escape. There were so many wild animals in the forest beyond the mountain. Even if she

did you find such a beautiful girl?"

else jumped in. "She is just like a lady from a big town! How lucky you

let you take a concubine, right? And such a beautiful one

face darkening and felt an urgent need to explain, "Don't be stupid! You know, I

wife!

were shocked listening to this. They couldn't believe it, especially the young boys. In fact, they were angry thinking an idiot like Donny was going to marry

village head!' one young man

into

marry someone, bear children

would be even worse as she was going to marry

do manual labor. How will she survive?" "Maybe she'll give birth to a

nor give birth. I mean is there any other point?" One girl suggested arrogantly, her own body strong

eavesdropping the entire time and had a comment of his own to add. "You girls! Look at her beautiful face! I would marry her simply to look at it day and night. What a pity!

and was filled with joy. She gloated over the fact that her son was going to get something those boys never could. They would probably just end up marrying some generic

son! No one could have such good fortune! 'Keep getting jealous for

too long. Soon, the crowd scattered

such little food she had no strength to work. Yet, she tried to learn how to dig out the potatoes like other villagers did but only succeeded in finding